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...Advantage. Even if the numbers game was not contradictory, it would not give an accurate picture of both countries' relative nuclear strength. On one level, each superpower has more than enough warheads to destroy civilization; the surplus, as Winston Churchill once said, serves only to "make the rubble bounce." In anything other than an all-out nuclear war, however, accuracy of missiles becomes the critical factor. Here the U.S. has a substantial technological advantage. It requires three of Russia's burly S59 missiles?each with a 25-megaton yield?to hit the same targets as one U.S. Minuteman III with...
Died. Major General Sir Edward L. Spears, 87, British soldier, diplomat and war historian; in London. A lifelong Francophile, Spears was sent as Winston Churchill's personal representative to the crumbling French Third Republic in 1940, later wrote about the fall of France in Assignment to Catastrophe. Spears devised Charles de Gaulle's last-minute escape to London and helped him organize the Free French forces. Spears' first wife was the American-born novelist Mary Borden (Margin of Error), who died...
Aneurin was a 7th century Welsh warrior-bard, and Aneurin Bevan aptly bore his name. Roaring into the House of Commons in 1929, the original Angry Young Man, he became-second only to his archfoe, Winston Churchill -the most hypnotic orator and contumacious politician of 20th century Britain. One of seven surviving sons of a Monmouthshire miner who died of lung disease, "Nye" Bevan, even in his plummy days as a Buckinghamshire squire and playboy of the West End world, never forgot or forgave the hardscrabble existence eked out by the working folk of his native valleys. His principal monument...
...programmed by evolution. Behaviorist B.F. Skinner, conversely, has long argued that man can be conditioned to forsake his violent ways. Now Erich Fromm, 73, social philosopher, psychoanalyst and bestselling author (The Sane Society, The Art of Loving), has written a new book, The Anatomy of Human Destruction (Holt, Rinehart & Winston; $10.95), that challenges both schools of thought...
...wealth and prominence, and doing much to mold the destiny of the oil-thirsty world. Perhaps more than any other ruler, King Feisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, 67, is a living symbol of the idiosyncracies and aspirations of his country. To the Saudis, he is a kind of Winston Churchill or Sun Yat-sen and, in the best sense, a godfather...