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...improvement on the 1972 SALT I freeze, which left the Soviets with a numerical advantage of about 40% in missile launchers. Yet even with that numerical advantage, the Soviets have already bumped their heads against the SALT I ceiling: they have been forced to dismantle several older Yankee class missile-firing submarines in order to deploy new Delta class boats and stay within the SALT I limits. SALT I formally expired in October 1977. The Carter Administration and the Kremlin agreed to extend it informally until SALT II was complete. But now, with SALT II in limbo, the Soviets...
Despite new terminals in Leverett and Currier Houses and an additional new computer enabling Natural Sciences 110, "Automatic Computing," to have a machine of its own, the 700 Harward students in Harvard's second largest class are once again spending reading period scrambling for computer time...
However, the NCAA is rich and powerful. The AIAW has suffered from second-class citizenship since its inception and as a result has been slow in building women's programs. On the basic levels, the AIAW certainly has made great strides in encouraging the blossoming of women's athletics. But now, facing the difficult talk of promoting these events at a high interest, high revenue level, the AIAW finds itself struggling. It might just benefit by accepting the NCAA's help...
Lader's detractors charge that his own personal involvement in the Left may have "dimmed" his objectivity. But why should a confessed liberal writing about Leftist movements by any more suspect than a CIA-sponsored professor writing about foreign policy or a member of the privileged class setting down his version of the history of the American people? Indeed, it would be ridiculous to insist that this book be purely objective. Like Walter Cronkite reading the casualty reports during the Vietnam War, the author's feelings do occasionally overcome his carefully documented (some 40 pages of notes and sources) facts...
...character would never deign to walk through the front door of a famous building; the author's knowledge of the innards of 10 Downing Street, the White House and, most impressive of all, the Kremlin, add immeasurably to the sense of reality. Superb mannered pillar of the English middle class. It is at first hard to understand what this man is doing among all these movers and shakers. We soon learn: "Andrew Drake, despite his Anglicized name, was also a Ukranian, and a fanatic." Forsyth decides Bond-like gadgets also appear in delicious profusion, including a personal favorite, the "flash...