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Just a little past Albany, civilization disappears for good, except for the HoJos. The length of the trip to Lake Placid is overrated--it's really just five or six hours long--but in some ways it's a harbinger of the lines to come and the waiting. But it was warmer waiting...
...there are very few people who couldn't care less, except for the press, of course. "ABC tried to get a group of us to turn over a car for their television camera," a young woman from New Jersey announces to the Marcy and Saranac lines. "But we wouldn't do it." Applause and cheers. Lake Placid is actually a big love-in; everyone is in a good mood, slowly freezing to death smiling like Cheshire cats. And in perspective waiting in line is okay because you get to meet people and talk about the lines and the games...
After New Hampshire and Massachusetts, the campaigns move south, where most Republicans are emphasizing Florida. Most, that is, except Connally. The key to the former Texas governor's "Southern strategy" is the South Carolina primary on March 8. Malone calls South Carolina "the important one" and predicts it will be a race among Reagan, Bush and Connally, with all three finishing tightly...
...destructive in their immediate application as well as after effects that they threatened not only the victim of aggression but all humanity, the aggressor included; (2) that no defense was possible against them; and (3) that, for both these reasons, they could have no conceivable political or military utility--except to deter otheres also armed with them. These assumptions, still widely held a third of a century after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, underpin our approach to SALT and explain the critical importance which we attach to it both in our defense planning and in our relations with the Soviet Union...
...insular nation, we have come instinctively to define strategic weapons to mean weapons capable of inflicting harm on one's homeland; and just as instinctively, we have attributed this definition to the Russians. As a matter of fact, however, except when it suits them for purposes of negotiating certain arms limitations with us (as, for instance, in the case of the Backfire bomber), the Russians have not adopted this definition at all. Their criterion for determining what constitutes strategic weapons is not geographic but functional: a strategic weapon to them is one which, regardless of its range, can attain immediate...