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deaths. Dilatory deaths are not pleasing to the quantitative counters. They do not fit the zero concept.
President Reagan has recently introduced another “zero” concept in what he calls the “zero option,” included in an offer, or proposition, he has made to the Russians relative to nuclear weapons in Europe. This terminology is simply, more complicated, more sophisticated, a little less understandable than the old offer of “Take it or leave it,” or “This or nothing”. Evidence now is that the Russians have not responded to the “zero option” and the Reagan Administration is beginning to talk about another option, approximately “zero minus something”, not having gone to “absolute zero” or indicated a willingness to take into consideration the “wind-chill factor”, so popular with the weather reporters.
A recent newspaper headline referred to “the zero dilemma” I could not quite understand either the headline or the text of the article. It is my understanding that a dilemma is a situation in which it is difficult to make a choice. A zero dilemma, one might conclude, would not leave one with much of a choice, but it should make little difference as to whether one chose one zero or another.
I think I had better visit the four and a half year old again to get my counting straightened out and be better able to understand budget makers, arms experts and the President, and why
in prize fights,^the knock-out count still goes from one to ten, instead of from nine to
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