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...Harvard authors recommend that the U.S. work harder in areas of arms control that now seem of lesser impor tance but that may turn into hotbeds of U.S.-Soviet nuclear competition. One important example: an attempt to prevent the development of antisatellite weapon ry, which ultimately threatens the communication between the superpowers and their deterrent forces. Strengthening of that communications network, they say, should be among the top U.S. defense priorities. The Harvard authors oppose the development of the B-1 bomber and have reservations about the deployment of sub marine-launched nuclear cruise missiles. But they support the Stealth...
...thriller, part history, part romantic epic, is a remarkable feat of technique, and of soul. Gage deftly shifts among hundreds of characters, dozens of locales, and a welter of big-scale narratives-World War II, the Greek civil war, the exodus of Mourgana refugees in every direction-that in lesser hands would overwhelm the story of one woman's family. He manages to be fair to people he has every reason to despise: he evokes the grievances of the guerrillas as fully as their treachery, the gullibility of the villagers as well as their jealousy and spite. Painfully...
Perhaps the greatest triumph of all occurs at the end of the novel when Susan stops immersing herself in self-pity and recognizes that her problems are no lesser or greater than the rest of the world's. Ironically, Levin seems to succeed most when she quits writing for effect and allows the characters to speak for themselves...
...meanest coon dog of all. He asked Carter whether he was competent to be President. (Donaldson's judgment: no.) He suggested to Reagan that his presidency was "failing" and asked if it was true that he had to be "dragged back to making realistic decisions" by aides. To lesser officials Donaldson can be, if anything, ruder: at a press conference preceding an international economic summit, when Secretary of State George Shultz was brought in by White House officials for no apparent purpose, Donaldson demanded, "Mr. Secretary, why have you come here...
...revised letter drops one rationale previously offered for grudging acceptance of deterrence: that it was a "sinful situation" that should be tolerated because the dangers of unilateral disarmament were worse. The panel decided that such reasoning tried to justify an act because it was the "lesser of two evils," an approach that Catholic teaching rejects on such matters as abortion...