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...though such weapons systems take only 7% of the defense budget. As Jones put it, "The strategic balance sets the tone for what goes on in the rest of the world." The Administration has just taken an important step in this area by approving a $33 billion, ten-year program for the MX ICBM. The movable MX is theoretically invulnerable to surprise attack, so when the Pentagon starts deploying the first of these missiles in Utah and Nevada in 1986, the window of vulnerability will begin closing. The U.S. has also been moving ahead with the $4.4 billion air-launched...
...whites, who constitute only 3% of the population, now control half of Zimbabwe Rhodesia's territory and more than 80% of its most productive farm lands. This imbalance, the guerrillas argued, would have to be redressed by a sweeping program of land redistribution. After...
Another purpose of Hua's call was to rebuild the trade links with industrial nations that have weakened since the Peking Politburo concluded that the rapid "four modernizations" program of Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping exceeded China's capacity to pay for it. In the past eight months, Peking has canceled or postponed billions of dollars worth of orders from Japanese, American and European companies. The retrenchment has proved particularly disturbing to France, which ranked as China's fourth largest trading partner in 1976. By last year it had slipped to eighth place and prospects for improvement diminished...
...Today's program will include three morning panel discussions. "We want to brief parents on the things we've been telling their kids," Robert J. Ginn; director of the Office or Career Services and Off-Campus Learning, said. Ginn said he would conduct a discussion summarizing the kinds of career advisory programs available to freshman...
...left in 1980. After all, who else can the left go for? So he has already begun creeping towards the political center, talking about anti-inflationary crusading and the need for good old American free market competition in many industries. He's even selling his national health program as a privately insured system, a chance for financial corporations to profit from the sufferings of the old and diseased...