European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 20, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 10 columns the stars and stripes wednesday november 20,1985 technology creates death times 12 by Art Buchwald it s Only fair with the Summit under Way that we pay tribute to the world s great stockpiles of atomic weapons. Without them there s a Good Chance that Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev might not be meeting in Geneva. A recent Survey revealed that being blown up by a nuclear weapon is not the biggest fear in the world today. It s the fact that people can be snuffed out More than once that has citizens on the Globe slightly nervous. According to a report by Ruth Sivard a former offi Cial of the us. Arms control and disarmament Agency there arc now enough weapons on Earth to kill $8 million human beings. The catch is there Aren t 58 Bil lion people in the world. Professor Sowa Bratton. Who specializes in nuclear snuff statistics believes there is an answer to this. Since we re Short on the living and Long on the weapons the scientific Community no longer counts How Many people we can kill but rather How Many limes we can kill them he explained. How Many times is that i asked. He took out his pocket calculator. We can Knock off everyone in the world 12 limes with favourable wind conditions of course that s a big improvement i said. I recall just a few years ago that the superpowers were Lucky if they could kill each person five times. To what do you credit the breakthrough better Quality control and technology. In the old Days building atomic weapons was Little More than a mom and pop business. Mom stuffed the bombs with uranium Ana pop screwed on the fuses. This was of for Hiroshima and Nagasaki but it just was t Good Enrigh for a global arms race. No big. How we 1 and no. 2 move the arms buildup into the 20th Century their military advisers warned them that the Low Post world War ii kill ratio would no longer keep peace. 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In another column 1 wrote that All of . White s work shared one Quality in Kyle poplin of the Augusta a chronicle charges me with redundancy. Guilty As charged. It would have sufficed to say shared one a dozen readers headed by Charles j. Mouhtouris of Woodstock a. Have chided me for a sentence about gelling along in japanese. I wrote that we must do As Best we the Point is that i should have said As Well As we Here i raise a plaintive defense. I think As Best we can is a respectable idiom but 1 will submit to a jury verdict. Is this a Southern regionalism does anyone else say As Best we can another dozen readers represented by John b. Rigg jr., of Denver leaped upon a concluding paragraph in which i wrote. One More observation and we Are he wanted to know if i were a Steak or a roast beef. My preference he said is for one More observation and we arc finished again pm defensive. The word done is defined As arrived at or brought to an end and i Don t know whether finished is less misleading. Would he have me finished in varnish or finished in lacquer on that note let me acknowledge a double barrelled protest from Ella Kjonsvik of Seattle. I said in a column that once i wrote a travel piece in the style of Mark Twain. On reflection 1 found it affected. And Tore it she was taught that a phrase cannot stand alone As a Complete she also has a pet Peeve against starting a sentence with and or Here i fight Back. Yes As a general Rule sentence fragments arc poor contrivances. They give the Reader the hiccups. Or burps. Not Good. It s equally True that too Many sentences beginning with and or but leave an impression that a writer is paralysed by the Prospect of an honest compound sentence. Even so i hold that an occasional sentence fragment May serve effectively to break up a series of Long sentences and an occasional beginning but May Point up a contrast. We ought not to get so straitjacket cd in rules that we sacrifice vigor and clarity to form. Elizabeth Rylan Drof Winter Park Fla. Reproaches me for describing a proposed constitutional amendment As this Well intentioned but misguided she favors i Dunno. Webster s ninth new collegiate says Well intentioned has been around since 1598. That makes it respectable in my in Larul san dict Ai Rax now. Chm exit nth i Tutor cps in. Atka of that. Today s crossword by Eugene Sheffer across. I Foolke organi. Surpass 7 Island East 36 tall is of Java 8 mortal10 Lucifer trip Gaspro ceeding13 son of Elizabeth ii Ikuss 17 animal fat 33 Monaco r"1"3 l 37 social 00 a Rin 38 Public warehouse 39 fencing sword 40 Printer s units 41 head of the House 18 Mim roared avg. Solution time 24 Man. 19 decorative vases 20 hotel room items 21 Volcano on Martinique 23 pore Over Hooks 25 Sharpen 26 amphibian 27 Umpire s call28 incan tation Ana. 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