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Reagan will forget he has made a blood oath to wipe communism from the face of the earth, and both he and Chinese Premier Deng Xiaoping will carefully ignore Taiwan--the most sticky issue in Sino-American relations. Reagan, who for three years showed a decided preference for China's small capitalist would-be namesake, now gingerly talks of relations with the "people of Taiwan," but not Taiwan itself...
...ascendance of Andrew Jackson the federal government abandoned all pretense of concern for Indian rights. In place of conciliation Jackson and his successors pursued a policy of removal and relocation, forcibly transfering eastern tribes to territories in the west. There followed a dismal procession of measures designed to wipe out tribal sovereignty and assimilate Indians into the white-American mainstream. In mid-century Congress established federal boarding schools for Indian children, where they were forbidden to speak their parents' language on pain of corporal punishment; in 1871 it abolished the practice of making treaties with Indian tribes...
...Each side shall have no more than 250 EMT (megatons). At this moment the US has approximately 3053 EMT and the Soviet Union has about 3471 EMT. If used, these weapons would undoubtedly wipe out the populations of both nations and would surely cause catastrophic environmental damage. According to former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara in Defense Secretary FY 1969, the proposed 250 EMT would still do significant damage to the poulations and economies of both nations, thereby making a first strike sheer stupidity. Without this reduction, however, recovery would be impossible and the entire world would be directly affected...
...TTAPS findings make survivability and retaliation unnecessary. A first strike attack even one directed at just military targets, would cause enough of a nuclear winter to "wipe out all the grain growing regions of the United states, Canada and the Soviet Union." A nation launching a first strike will effectively commit suicide regardless of the adversary's response. As Sagan put it in a recent lecture at the Kennedy School, "the attacked nation need not lift a finger for retribution swift and final to fall on the aggressor...
...that two prophets came after Muhammad. To Muslims this constitutes a new, perverted faith. The first prophet was Mirza 'Ali Muhammad, who declared in 1844 that he was the Bab (gate), the pathway to God. He was executed in 1850 as a heretic. When Persian authorities tried to wipe out his disciples, the Babis fought back; as many as 20,000 were slain...