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unprecedented predicament. After decades of virtually absolute security beneath the American nuclear umbrella, the members of this alliance will soon be inferior to the Warsaw Pact in many crucial areas of military power. NATO will have to find the will and the resources to limit the duration of this perilous inferiority, or risk being defeated from its own underbelly, the source of its raw materials. Free of bullying and insensitivity, Washington must inspire, urge and cajole other NATO nations to make the decisions that will be neither straightforward nor easy...
...extra dollars Reagan intends to lavish on the military are spent on muscle rather than frills and fat. Says Helmut Sonnenfeldt, who as an assistant to Henry Kissinger was an Administration colleague of Weinberger's: "I'd expect him to be very jaundiced on Defense spending without limit, to bring an air of realism and reason to the Defense budget process." Whichever opinion is correct, there is no doubt which client Lawyer Weinberger will be serving to the best of his ability: Ronald Reagan...
...some resistance. Says a Western diplomat in Warsaw: "I don't look for divisions to fight. But at the battalion and company level, they would." Last week Soviet officers in civilian clothes were reported to have moved into the Polish Defense Ministry; presumably their mission was to limit the potential for mutiny if intervention is called...
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Though Harvard did dominate the third period, statistics for the first 40 minutes are misleading. The tight Dartmouth defense and intelligent play by Gaudet combined to limit the Crimson to a bunch of twenty-foot blasts and not much else...