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...WCAU should recognize its professional repsonsibility to give the public programs of quality and should make Rizzo find another way to reach what he calls the "rowhouse people, the little people." Rizzo's show amounts to little more than a bully pulpit from which this incessant politician can launch another bid for the mayor's office and embarrass Philadelphia more...
...ICBMs. That would leave at least 400 land- based U.S. warheads -- each packing about 20 times the destructive force of the Hiroshima bomb -- for a counterattack on the Soviet Union. Moreover, the Soviets would always have to fear that the U.S., alerted to a surprise attack, would simply launch its entire force before enemy missiles arrived. Says conservative strategist Fred Ikle: "The Soviets can never have a high confidence of destroying these missiles in their silos...
Most Western analysts doubt that New Delhi has developed the capacity -- or the inclination -- to launch a sustained military action outside its immediate neighborhood. Today the territory that India most covets is purely psychological. Says a West European diplomat in New Delhi: "More than anything else, India wants to be taken seriously. It wants to be viewed as a world power. That is an end in itself...
...does not intend to be, but the West is divided by the question of how, and how much, to help the East bloc. One school, which includes Italian Prime Minister Ciriaco De Mita, is eager to launch a Communist Marshall Plan to deal with the bloc's $131 billion indebtedness -- a 60% increase in three years -- rung up by outmoded and mismanaged state industries. "An expensive irrelevance," snorted the Economist. Critics are wary of throwing money at Eastern Europe without a clear idea of what they should extract in return. Former U.S. National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski wants any assistance...
...flawless lift-off and successful flight pave the way for missions that include the launch of the powerful space telescope and probes to Venus and Jupiter...