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Some military experts on Capitol Hill are dubious about allotting money for chemical warfare. Democratic Senator Gary Hart of Colorado has introduced legislation to ban money for the new weapons, arguing that they "would constitute a mindless escalation of the arms race." The Administration believes, however, that replenishing its chemical-weapons stock could force the Soviets into serious negotiations on a chemical-arms ban. If a mutually acceptable verification system could be worked out, said U.S. Disarmament Negotiator Louis Fields Jr. at talks in Geneva last week, the U.S. would "terminate our binary program promptly and eagerly...
...hero and adventurer Harold Ryan who is played superbly by Mark Lupke returns home to New York in the early '70s after a seven-year hiatus But he finds that the world no longer glories in its romantic, violent heroes Nor is his white. Penelope (Nora Seton) a mindless devotedly passionate house wife any longer During her husband's long absence she has gone to college, presently she's being courted by two debonair suitors. Herb Shuttle (Doug Curtis) and Norbert Woodly (Andrew Atkinson...
...overreach of the air age. Even so, White was always among the first to discern the now familiar signs and portents: ecological disturbances, the decline of various species, the discovery that last year's medical boons may lead to tomorrow's degenerative diseases, the horrors of a mindless but ubiquitous visual press, and the debilitating result of trying to achieve salable "smoothness and softness" in everything...
...love of our nation's might, a simple hedonistic picture of power to be enjoyed for it exercise rather than its direction. "Have you played that tank one? You go and blow up other tanks, it's great." The automated aimlessness present in our acquisitive appetites fosters this mindless militarism...
Without ever offering any reasons why, the Society flatly states. "the illegitimacy of GSA's claim is obvious." Historically, Gay people have been systematically denied participation in, and protection from, majoritarian politics. Furthermore, they have identifiable interests: safety. academic freedom, employment and housing security and ending the mindless bigotry that has for so long denied them basic civil liberties. The "illegitimacy" of our desire for a voice in the new student government is not clear to me, nor to the Constitution Committee which made the recommendation...