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Alliance military commanders claim that the conventional balance is tilted heavily against them. "Every year," says NATO Supreme Commander General Bernard Rogers, "we find the gap continues to widen." Rogers warns that "within days" of a Warsaw Pact invasion, he would be forced to seek permission to use tactical nuclear weapons to halt an otherwise unstoppable advance. Once NATO crossed that threshold, however, escalation to full-scale nuclear war might be impossible to stop. The grim joke in NATO military circles is that its defense strategy consists of "fighting like hell for three days and then blowing up the world...
...village of Oak Brook does not like the glitzy 31-story office tower designed by Architect Helmut Jahn any more than Joann Murphy does. But neighboring Oakbrook Terrace gladly let a developer put it up -- right on the border between the two communities. Then Oak Brook refused to widen a road running to one side of the building, even though the developer offered to pay for the work. Its argument: Oakbrook Terrace would get all the tax advantages of the new building, so let Oakbrook Terrace widen one of its own roads and choke on the ensuing traffic. Says...
...have observed in Washington leads me to the conclusion that the interrelationship between the press and the government has become very close. Newsmen do not like to feel that they are a part of the governmental process. I respect that view and I hold to it, but if you widen the lens, you inevitably come to the conclusion that the interrelationship is close," he says...
Harvard scored one run in the third and four in the fifth--but Northeastern bundled together 10 runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth to widen its lead to football proportions...
...Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE) this year has instituted a number of changes in its annual course guide in an attempt to widen the scope and increase the information in the book, editors said last week...