What does MAD mean to you? It might mean insane, it might mean angry. But if you were a nuclear strategist, it would be an acronym standing for Mutual Assured Destruction. The MAD strategy is the basis of the SALT Treaty of 1972, and is colloquially … [Read more...] about THE MAD STRATEGY
RUNAWAY PLANTS
A recent letter to a metropolitan newspaper by Prank Eyles, executive secretary of the Midwest Industrial Union Council, calls attention to one of the prime causes of unemployment at the present time. He charges that "more than one million American … [Read more...] about RUNAWAY PLANTS
The Success Story Of Free China — August 1974
TAIWAN’S PROSPERITY
The most striking lesson in the world today between freedom and slavery, between prosperity and privation, is the contrast between free China on Taiwan and Red China on the Mainland. Both countries are populated and governed by people of the same … [Read more...] about TAIWAN’S PROSPERITY
AID TO INDIA
The old adage “you can't teach an old dog new tricks" may be headed for the scrap heap. The big-spending liberals are finally becoming disillusioned with U.S. foreignaid to India. It has taken 25 years and $10 billion to teach them that this is a … [Read more...] about AID TO INDIA
NIXON AT YALTA
Well, President Nixon went to Yalta after all — despite the White House protestations that he would not. The Soviets insisted that Nixon go to Yalta, and it seems that whatever Brezhnev wants, Brezhnev gets. For a few days, the White House tried to … [Read more...] about NIXON AT YALTA
KUDIRKA’S MOTHER
The U.S. Embassy in Moscow recently issued an American passport to the 67-year old widowed mother of Simas Kudirka— that Lithuanian sailor who leaped from a Soviet fishing vessel off Massachusetts in 1970 onto a U.S. Coast Guard ship. Kudirka's … [Read more...] about KUDIRKA’S MOTHER
A NUCLEAR NAVY
A famous story about Napoleon relates that, after he had conquered the European Continent, a young American inventor named Robert Fulton obtained an interview with him. Fulton spread out his designs and models for his steamboat, and described how his … [Read more...] about A NUCLEAR NAVY
THE 31st STATE
In 1959, the United States admitted Alaska and Hawaii as the 49th and 50th states of the Union, thus overriding the sincere misgivings of some people who worried about the precedent of admitting non-contiguous territories. Today, the value of Alaska … [Read more...] about THE 31st STATE
PASSPORT FRAUDS
In the sea of red ink which engulfs the Federal Government, there is one agency which ends every year with a healthy budget surplus: the U.S. Passport Office. This so-called annual profit, now in the range of $15 million, is the result of the … [Read more...] about PASSPORT FRAUDS
