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...many years ago, the solution would have been the brisk dispatch of gunboats to the Persian Gulf. For a few militarily insignificant states to wreak economic havoc on most of the world's major powers would have been unthinkable. Today it is the gunboats that are unthinkable or almost so, perhaps not so much from moral fastidiousness as from a fear in the West that the Soviets would not stand...
...Cross installed a bank of phones for use if the current "standby alert" for a Portland-area disaster goes "red." Two of the Pacific Northwest's largest users of electricity, Reynolds Metals in Oregon and Alcoa in Washington, are particularly threatened. A power cutoff of five hours would wreak such havoc that, Reynolds estimates, it would cost the company $7 million to start up its plant again...
...story like this is just the sort of revenge a journalist would wreak. After years of bridging the gaps between White House prayer-breakfasts and White House horrors, and between Redskin games and carpet bombings, a good newsman must wonder between bombshells whether anything is sacred to men of government...
...also said that America has a strong interest in not seeing Israel pressed to the wall. "Israel could militarily wreak havoc on the entire Middle East...
...undergraduates besieged the Yard to attend the Gabriellesque shriek. None was forthcoming, and perched on a Wigglesworth stoop, Young smiled and grunted his satisfaction. By next week, however, Young's plan was torpedoed by hordes of freshman imitators who clambered up among the gargoyles at the appointed hour, to wreak their own vocal havoc. Another crisis was at hand, as the oral abominations of the mimics were now desolating the Yard and the tell-tale grade-point average was dipping again. On a cold night, again at 3:30 a.m., Young once more confronted the erstwhile howler and appealed...