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Conservative opponents of SALT sometimes spoke as if it were possible to regain our nuclear superiority, but they soon recoiled before the twin obstacles of technology and cost. Liberals, on the other hand, were reluctant to draw the consequences for local defense from the strategic parity they were both advocating and accelerating. Both schools tended to neglect the need for strengthening regional or conventional forces...
Hays feels that the diving and sprints should be the key in tomorrow's finale, if Harvard is to regain fourth place. "We're stronger mentally. They realize what they are capable of and they're not scared to use their potential...
Every Israeli (and American) analysis before October 1973 agreed that Egypt and Syria lacked the capability to regain their territory by force of arms; hence it was assumed they would not attack. The premises were correct. The conclusions were not. What literally no one understood beforehand was the mind of Anwar Sadat. In his view, serious diplomacy was impossible while Israel considered itself militarily supreme and Egypt was paralyzed by humiliation. In 1972 he expelled Soviet troops from his country because of the disrespect shown by Soviet leaders toward Egyptians but above all because they would surely seek to impede...
...authorities recently removed an inscription from a wall behind the towering monument to workers killed in the 1970 uprising. It read: "They died so that you could live in dignity." Effacing those words will not destroy the memory of the Gdansk martyrs, or the determination of the survivors to regain their lost dignity. - By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Richard Homik/ Warsaw and Wilton Wynn/Rome
...team will have a chance to regain its composure when it faces the same 10 NCAA Division I squads at the Williams College Carnival next week at Brodie Mountain in western Massachusetts...