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...Union with a fraction of the 5,300 warheads on its modern missile submarines and the 4,700 on its bombers. Though the first operational test last week of a Trident II missile resulted in a spectacular pinwheeling explosion, that failure was at worst a temporary setback for a weapon that will give the U.S. a sea-based silo-killing capability for the first time. In fact, it is the Soviet Union, not the U.S., that has a real problem with the survivability of its nuclear forces, since as many as 55% of its warheads are concentrated in vulnerable land...
...remains an article of faith. And it does so because the faith is bad faith: the stand the N.R.A. takes is only nominally on behalf of recreational hunters. The people it really serves are gun manufacturers and gun importers, whose sole interest is to sell as many deadly weapons of as many kinds to as many Americans as possible. The N.R.A. never saw a weapon it didn't love. When American police officers raised their voices against the sale of "cop-killer" bullets -- Teflon-coated projectiles whose sole purpose is to penetrate body armor -- the N.R.A. mounted a campaign...
...last year, Boggs hit a remarkable .380 (as opposed to .310 before). Even the trespasses that Boggs did commit seem almost trifling at a time when five football players at the University of Oklahoma alone are variously charged with gang rape, dealing in cocaine and assault with a deadly weapon...
Coach Cleary considered using Vukonich in Harvard's big scoring weapon, the five-forward power play. But an early-season bout with mononucleosis canceled his tryout. And another sophomore, Donato, came through with a more-than-solid performance...
...opponents might try to use fear as a weapon against homeownership. But tenants will find they have nothing to fear from the empowerment my proposal will give them. On November 7, what tenants can gain with Proposition 1-2-3 is no less than their home, their security and their freedom...