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...Anderson's only worry in Massachusetts, however. Many of the residents of Boston's "silk-stocking suburbs" caught on to his campaign too late switch their registration to independent. And Anderson's organization is Johnny-come-lately compared to the corporate headquarters and pin-stripped staffers his Republican challengers command. Yet Anderson remains hopeful. "The conventional wisdom is that you can't mount a spontaneous political movement. We're going to challenge that," he says...
...French attitude revived memories of President Charles de Gaulle's haughty 1966 decision to pull French troops out of NATO'S integrated military command, and his persistent exclusion of Britain from the European Community. Why is it that France so often emerges as a difficult partner for the U.S. and NATO? TIME Paris Bureau Chief Henry Muller offers this analysis...
...clear, still night last December, Israeli scientists and energy officials gathered in the tiny desert community of Ein Bokek near the southern shore of the Dead Sea. At the command of the Energy Minister, a switch was thrown and a battery of floodlights suddenly blazed in the darkness, casting an eerie bluish glow over the nearby hills. As onlookers cheered, one dazzled scientist exulted: "We have hit the skeptics pretty hard...
...between the major powers, but they look upon these as mere skirmishes in a protracted conflict in which the employment of strategic weapons will prove crucial. It will be crucial because the punishment which the enemy's nuclear missiles can inflict on one's armed forces--the troops, their command, and their logistic support--is potentially so devastating that no commander can consider deploying them for combat until and unless this threat has been substantially lifted. This, of course, entails preemption, and its literature leaves no doubt that the Soviet Union intends massively to preempt the instant the leadership...
...wish to be misunderstood. I am not saying that the Soviet High Command is plotting a surprise nuclear attack on the United States or its allies. The Soviet leadership is undoubtedly well aware of the risks and consequences of nuclear war. What I am saying is that they regard a general war to be possible, and have concluded that in such a war nuclear weapons will decide the issue. This being the case, they draw the further inference that the side that has prepared itself most thoroughly for fighting a nuclear war, both offensively and defensively, stands a better chance...