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...week of our liberation." Newly painted writing appeared beside the faded slogans of the revolution on the walls of buildings. GOD BLESS AMERICA read some. A few residents suggested as delicious irony: the island's new 10,000-ft. airstrip, begun with Cuban labor and long the object of deep concern in Washington, be completed with U.S. dollars and be named "Ronald Reagan International Airport...
Should a nuclear crisis over occur, the object would be to restore deterrence as quickly as possible before escalation. In the event of an attack on the U.S., rapid response ICBMs (Minuteman, MX. Midgetman) force the Soviets into a "use or lose" situation. Instead of forcing the Politburo into a 30-minute decision, the best method of retaliation might come from the very slow cruise missile which takes 4-12 hours to strike. In the meantime, communication and hopefully negotiation for restoring order could get underway. "We have sustained your attack and we have retaliated in the hope that...
First Lieutenant Robert C. Barber'72, an active duty Marine assigned to study at the Law School, said he did not object to the protesters as he stopped in the office of career services to visit the recruiters...
They already knew that a star of about the sun's mass would collapse after its nuclear fires died out and shrink to an earth-size object called a white dwarf. But what would happen if the dying star were significantly larger than the middling-size...
...began his first film, Un Chien Andalou (1928), by walking onto a moon-flooded balcony and calmly slitting a young woman's eye. He began his last film, That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), by replacing his leading lady with two actresses who alternated scenes in the same role. For Luis Buñuel, the Spanish film maker who died this July at 83, conventions of content and form were mere pieties, best approached with a straight razor and a straight face. He had been, after all, one of the merry pranksters of surrealism, spiking café chat...