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...Society for Foreign Affairs and one of his country's foremost strategic thinkers, suggested an answer: "Probably at the beginning the SS-20 was just a modernization program, but now with the debate in the West, I am reasonably sure that the SS-20 program has a much wider, long-term perspective behind it." Kaiser got wholehearted support from Alois Mertes, Minister of State at the West German Foreign Office, who said that both the SS-20 and the proposed counterforce, NATO's Pershing Us and cruises, are essentially political weapons. Mertes maintained that the Soviet Union would...
...decision, upheld a California moratorium enacted in 1976 that bans certification of new nuclear facilities until the Federal Government finds a way to dispose permanently of the plants' highly radioactive waste products. The ruling, which affects only future construction, opens the door for wider state involvement...
Peace, security, the untroubled enjoyment of unproblematic Nature: such is the main motif of Constable's work. One might suppose that it would have made him popular in his lifetime, but English connoisseurs were far more receptive to Turner, the romantic with wider moods and more liberal feelings. An archconservative who longed for institutional acceptance but was denied it most of his life-he was not elected to the Royal Academy until age 52, and even then he had the humiliation of seeing his first entry as a member to its annual show rejected by his colleagues-Constable...
...hindsight? Certainly LSD did not bring about heaven on earth or create especially enlightened beings as its advocates contended it would, nor did it destroy the mind or create addiction as its opponents feared. So was the controversy a tempest in a teapot or does it have a wider significance? Leary and Alpert are back at Harvard to give their perspective on what it has all meant. I was involved in the controversy throughout because I had encouraged bringing both of them to Harvard (before they got involved with LSD), because I initially thought that research into mind altering substances...
...curriculum. Pauline Kael once said, "If you're hoping for elegance, don't begin with William Goldman." As Adventures makes clear, he even has trouble writing complete sentences. Screenwriting is such a natural for him that he relates important episodes of his life in script format. Besides, boyhood entrenchment, wider audiences-not to mention the pay-keeps luring him out to Hollywood...