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...nuclear war is winnable? "This notion has no place in our strategy," insisted Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger last week at the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pa. Said he: "We see nuclear weapons only as a way of discouraging the Soviets from thinking that they could ever resort to them. That is exactly why we must have a capability for a protracted response-to demonstrate that our strategic forces could survive Soviet strikes over an extended period...
...take his show on the road to Hollywood, where he will "try to get involved in some sort of entertainment, preferably film." Having worked on four years of Hasty Pudding and Kirkland House shows, he wants to produce motion pictures as a prelude to a career in restaurant and resort development. "There's a lot of night life involved in restaurants; the people are very interesting," he says. "And everybody eats...
...think, creates considerable anxiety. I think you can get about 85 percent of the benefits that a no-first use pledge would bring about...while avoiding some of those intense political costs of creating uncertainty in Europe by a declaration that nuclear weapons are a weapon of last resort....You would have a no-first-nuclear use so long as there has been a withdrawal of conventional troops...
JOURNALISTS wishing to advance their own views on a topic must usually follow certain forms; I wish to discuss Harvard in a grand and over broad manner, and hence must resort to the guise of review books that do the same. They, however, will be put down with a few snide and summary remarks, and I will then take my ego out for a stroll of some length...
...O.A.S. and created a North-South breach in the hemisphere, Caracas sent a delegation to Western Europe to plead for an end to the European Community's economic sanctions against Argentina. The sudden surge of nationalism in Caracas raised fears in Guyana, meanwhile, that Venezuela might resort to military action to seize 58,000 sq. mi. of mineral-rich territory that have been the subject of dispute since the beginning of the century...