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...words of Paul Warnke, a leading U.S. negotiator for the unratified SALT II treaty, "inherently implausible." Kremlin leaders, they insist, would not launch the first strike, because they could never be sure that they really would destroy most of the land-based American missiles. Even if they did, they dare not run the risk that the U.S. would hit back with a catastrophic strike on Soviet cities in return. Reaganites reply that worry about the Soviets' capacity for nuclear blackmail is in itself a force in world politics, frightening both the Western allies and the leaders of Third World...
...surrounding hillside 24 hours later. The army did not pursue them, reports TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Next day, openly cynical townspeople defiantly drove past the army checkpoints in pickup trucks straining with market goods and in crowded passenger buses sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?the guerrillas?were collecting "war taxes" from passing vehicles. Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some...
...demonstration project," came up with the notion of giving free commercial time to cultural and educational institutions, which in return would give station subscribers discounts on goods sold or services rendered. Larger stations, like WNET in New York City, are organizing along a more traditional line, although few dare speak the word "commercials." Says WNET President John Jay Iselin, whose current annual budget is around $65 million: "We prefer to call them 'enhanced corporate underwriting credits.'" Enhancement would mean letting the corporations that underwrite programming sound off about themselves in the genteelly effusive manner of a board chairman...
...social backgrounds--not just geographic ones--can mingle Without full aid. "diversity" of background becomes an insignificant variation among the rich. Not only will some students be unable to afford to come here if admitted, worse, if Harvard publicly renounces it policy, students from poor families will not even dare to apply...
Hard to say who is going to be more put out by Personal Best: the track-and-field Establishment, the homosexual Establishment, or such freelance homophobes as still dare to speak their name. The harrumphing of the sportsmen is already being heard here and there; somehow it is not nice, as they see it, to let the general public in on the fact that women athletes can be just as nastily competitive and talk just as dirty in shower and sauna as their male counterparts. As for the movie's centering on a pair of pentathletes, Chris Cahill (Mariel...