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...multiple warheads have the capacity to destroy enemy missiles in a pre-emptive strike and are more susceptible to being destroyed by a first strike. Since both sides know that they may have to use such missiles first if they are to use them at all, they encourage hair-trigger reactions. In addition, the new proposal meets the Soviet desire that bombers, in which the U.S. enjoys a strategic advantage, be simultaneously placed on the negotiating table in Geneva with land-based missiles. A complex formula has been devised to measure each country's nuclear firepower on missiles, submarines...
Americans, contemplating both the inexpungeable crime of Kennedy's killing and the prevalence of violence in their proper perspective, can best maintain the proper processes of American political life by eradicating the conditions that trigger the assassin's finger...
Around noon a crowd began gathering in front of the huge neo-Gothic Parliament building facing the Danube, intending to present Premier Nagy with a petition demanding the withdrawal of all Soviet troops. Soviet tanks and a phalanx of security police blocked all entrances to the building. Trigger-sensitive young Russian tankists became unnerved by the milling crowd around them and began firing indiscriminately into the mass of unarmed people. In a few minutes hundreds of men and women were lying dead or wounded on the ground...
...decided he feloniously "attempted to evade & defeat" payment during three of those years. Now he was to be sentenced. As a concession to the solemnity of the occasion he had left off his jewelry, was wearing a comparatively sober pinchback suit of blue. He fondled a bandaged right fore-(trigger)-finger, sucked and sucked on his coughdrop...
...Criticism of the Soviet fighter pilot's actions by Viktor Linnyk, a political consultant in the Soviet Department of International Affairs, who accused the pilots of being "trigger-happy...