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...Rive Gauche-but never any that set out to sell a full designer line at such reduced prices, without a precipitous decrease in quality. One would be hard put to tell the difference, in fact, between a leather jacket from the Emporium and one from the couture line, without resort to the price tag; an X ray would come in handy...
They are keepers of the keys to the U.S. arsenal of last resort. Inside the briefcase are "sealed authenticators," envelopes containing a variety of alphabetical codes called release messages. A series of a dozen or so code words, like TANGO ECHO BRAVO ROMEO NOVEMBER, once transmitted by the President or his constitutionally designated successor through the White House Communications Agency to the Pentagon, would constitute an order to fire some combination of the nation's 9,480 strategic warheads, with a cumulative destructive force equivalent to 3,505 megatons (1 megaton = 1 million tons of TNT) at a preselected...
...Administration has concentrated too much on the development of more big-ticket nuclear weapons and not enough on building up conventional forces. If America's conventional defenses were stronger, they would constitute a more credible deterrent to Soviet aggression, thereby reducing U.S. reli ance on a nuclear last resort. A case can be made that the politically difficult decision of reinstituting the draft would do more to strengthen American defense posture?and hence to diminish the danger of war?than the MX supermissile and the B-l bomber programs combined...
...been the reliance on superior American strategic nuclear power to compensate for the Soviets' advantage in conventional forces and proximity to key areas. By 1973 the Soviets had achieved parity in numbers of strategic delivery vehicles and superiority in throw weight (the total aggregate weight of warheads). Thus resort to strategic nuclear war became less and less credible. The prohibitive price of a nuclear exchange was as likely to inhibit resistance as to discourage aggression. "Better Red than dead" turned from a parody into a program...
Most cooks whom I know seem to think that a simple squeeze of lemon juice is the ultimate substitute for salt, and I find that naive. I do, of course, on occasion resort to lemon. But flavors that compensate, those that give special zest to foods, are beyond count. I prefer fresh herbs like parsley, tarragon, finely chopped garlic and fresh grated horseradish; spices Like curry and chili powders, powdered mustard (made into a paste with water), hot pepper flakes, a generous grinding of black pepper and sugar. Soy sauce, incidentally, is loaded with sodium, even a low-sodium...