Word: extinctionism
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Critics of Mrs. Gandhi, noting that she must call national elections by next January, suspect that Rama Rao's removal is part of a precampaign maneuver to strengthen the Prime Minister's hand in the six of India's 22 states that Congress (I) did not control...
Schell's book was important precisely because it did not accept the terms of debate set by political scientists. Why should we, after all? Political science is merely one way of looking at the world. If Schell wanted to write a book purely to win the faculty of the Kennedy...
BUT HIS PROPOSAL leaves that same horrific and impossible threat of global extinction in place. An agressor in a non-nuclear world could still kill millions, though not as fast, and passive nations would still have to threaten global extinction to stop the agressor from letting the rockets fly. The...
Schell acknowledges the continued primacy of deference in his non nuclear world: in fact, he applauds in part II what he successfully debunked in part I. He sets a trap for the conventional thinkers of the world, and then, eyes open walks right into it. Of course, the matter is...
West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl had more reason than most of his colleagues to be satisfied with the outcome of the election. With 46%, his ruling Christian Democrats lost only 3.2 percentage points compared with their showing in last year's national elections. For a party in power, that...