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...Soviets might resort to another ploy known as Pindown. By repeatedly exploding missiles high above the silos for several hours, they would create a blanket of floating debris, thermal shocks and high radiation that would keep the American missiles trapped in their silos. But the Pentagon replies that even if Pindown worked, which it doubts, the MXs could eventually be launched...
Dukakis also rejected one mayor's suggestion that sales taxes be increased to provide more revenues, saying. "New taxes have got to be viewed as a last resort, not a first resort...
...direct-selling business, second in size only to Avon's in the U.S., Amway owns the Mutual Broadcasting System, the largest radio network in the U.S. (950 affiliates), two 50,000-watt radio stations in Chicago and New York, the Grand Plaza Hotel in Grand Rapids and a resort in the British Virgin Islands...
...traditional conditions for a morally justifiable war, which are generally accepted by non-Catholics as well as Catholics, are that it be declared by a legitimate authority, for a righteous cause, with good intention, as a last resort, and waged with limited means. The two criteria for conduct of a just war that are especially pertinent to today's nuclear debate are "discrimination" (no direct killing of innocent civilians) and "proportion" (a war's devastation must not exceed the evil it seeks to overcome). Nuclear pacifists argue that these two factors necessarily rule out atomic warfare...
...some respects, and more powerful in others. The U.S.S.R. and the U.S. now possess approximately the same number of ballistic missile warheads-more than 7,000. These warheads are the fastest, most accurate and destructive long-range weapons in the two sides' arsenals of last resort. In Soviet eyes, they symbolize the U.S.S.R.'s attainment of equality with the U.S. as a superpower...