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...nuclear exchange could be limited. (NATO's tactical nuclear weapons are supposed to offset the Soviets' 2.6-to-l advantage in tanks and other conventional weapons.) The MX missile, the bishops say, might be destabilizing; since it threatens the Soviets' missiles, it could prompt Moscow to launch a pre-emptive strike...
...religious pacifist movement in the 1930s. In response to that earlier crisis, the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of Novak's mentors, started the magazine Christianity and Crisis, which, beginning in 1941, argued that American Christians must fight to resist totalitarianism. Novak and other lay intellectuals plan to launch this month a similar magazine, Catholicism in Crisis. Sums up Novak: "The laity is supposed to lead in Christian reflection on this-worldly matters. And, I may add, the work several lay writers have been doing on strategic issues has been much more balanced and intellectually satisfying than that...
...mind. He called The Guns of August his presidential handbook, because nowhere else was there such a clear story of ignorance leading to misjudgment and then to catastrophe. When Kennedy first saw the pictures of the missiles in place, he felt that the U.S. would have to launch a full-scale assault on Cuba to destroy them. History, riding on his shoulder, held him back. First, learn more. Then communicate. Don't humiliate. Be patient. And strong...
...wage limitations and a tighter monetary and fiscal policy. Most economists feel that the Socialists have little choice but to accept such measures. But in the flush of the Socialists' victory, González and his fellow moderates may come under heavy pressure from their left wing to launch radical economic and social programs. "To the extent that Felipe may have to accommodate some of that leftist pressure," said a diplomatic observer in Madrid, "it would invite a strong attack from the right...
Paul Horowitz, professor of Physics, will launch Harvard's first interstellar communication project early next year, using the University's 84-foot radio telescope, located in Harvard, Mass...