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...DELIBERATE POLICY" put forth in The Abolition in a nutshell, is to persuade all nations to destroy their nuclear weapons (zap!), while allowing and encouraging open deployment of defensive anti-nuclear weaponry. This defense--which would possibly include something along of President Reagan's oft-ridiculed "Star Wars" weapons--would primarily ensure the capacity to build new nuclear warheads, should another country feel like breaking the pan pact...
...postal service, is now promising even greater speed. Last week the Memphis-based company launched ZapMail, its long-awaited version of electronic mail. For as little as $25 for a missive of five pages or less and up to $50 for a maximum of 20 pages, Federal Express will zap letters and documents across the U.S. within two hours...
...exulted Koppel. Donahue was the designated baiter. Zap, pow, thud! If the candidates could do that to one another, think what they could do to the deficits, Pentagon cost overruns and those nasty types in Latin America...
...idea is certainly appealing. All of the murderous megatonnage of those fearsome intercontinental ballistic missiles would be rendered useless. The Soviet Union launches a surprise nuclear attack? Zap! U.S. laser beams from outer space blast the enemy booster rockets out of Soviet skies before they can dispatch their multiple warheads on long lethal flights...
...Bluebird Stadium, the scoreboard does not zap, crackle and pop; an unseen hand changes the goose eggs each inning. No Astro-Turf here; cows graze on the infield in anticipation of Farm Night, when the ballplayers have a hand at milking them. The team is a collection of youths on the way up and burned-out cases on the way down. There is the hot prospect (Patrick Cassidy) who is a terror in the outfield and a bed wetter at home. And the hick pitcher (Barry Tubbs) who appears to get height sickness when he climbs the pitcher...