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...Gallic intrigue grows almost too thick for any but the most attentive reader. But it is a tribute to the author's skill that despite the staggering ruck of events and the gulf of years that separates us from his protagonist. Louis comes through not as a monster but a comprehensible human being, fleetingly attractive and always impressive. If he sometimes resembles a Mafia Don organizing Newark, fair enough. Louis XI didn't want love, he wanted power...
...Megaton Monster. Behind the pessimism is the deep distrust with which the U.S. and the Soviet Union view each other's proposals. The U.S. plan contemplates a comprehensive limit on both offensive and defensive weaponry. It calls for a numerical limit of about 1,900 delivery vehicles for each side. The exact mix within that limit would be left to each power to decide. Within the quantitative limit, each side could make a number of qualitative improvements on existing weapons systems...
...plan did not appeal to Moscow on several counts. To begin with, it proposed a special limit on the Soviet S59 rocket, a 25-megaton monster (v. five megatons for the largest American ICBM). In addition, the U.S. plan did not include Europe-based U.S. and NATO bombers or Sixth Fleet aircraft, though they are capable of striking targets within the Soviet Union...
...SCITUATE SEA MONSTER...
...green-eyed monster heresy swims...