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...defensive depends largely on the point of view. The U.S., which has concentrated on offensive weapons, has always insisted that it maintains a defensive stance and would never make the first attack. But it has promised that any sneak attack it might suffer, no matter how damaging, would trigger an automatic response so terrible as to be intolerable to any enemy...
...bolder than the Somoza family, which for 31 years has, in one way or another, ruled Nicaragua. Last week, on the eve of an election that promised to install as President a third Somoza, chubby ex-General Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza Jr., 41, the opposition tried its best to trigger a coup d'etat. The result was riot and death for Nicaraguans and a narrow escape for a handful of foreigners...
...recently it placed No. 1 in unmanageability. A mere 10-per-lb. price fluctuation means $50 million to the producing countries. In Latin America, where many countries rely on the bean for 45% or more of their export earnings, wild price swings have been known to break treasuries and trigger political upheaval. Yet increasingly, thanks to the U.S. inspired International Coffee Organization, the world's coffee fits are being confined to the conference table...
...that it would necessarily take orders from Lin Piao in a showdown. Bloody clashes between army units and Red Guards were reported last fall in a few places, and since then Lin Piao has pointedly not used the army in the struggle. Reason: Lin fears that its use might trigger full-scale civil...
Most Indian art is religious in nature, but even the exceptions (the most noticeable are the Rajput miniatures) are intimately bound up in the philosophical and religious traditions. Unlike Christian art, which exemplifies a didactic theme, Hindu and Buddhist art attempts to directly trigger a religious experience...