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Though the so-called agreement still has not been published, by all accounts it is indeed tenuous. The Europeans promised to study alternatives to Soviet-supplied energy and new restrictions on high-technology exports and low-interest loans to the Soviet bloc. They did not commit themselves to any specific acts. Washington, finally aware that the sanctions were dividing the alliance without stopping the building of the pipeline, needed an excuse to end them. Said one senior adviser to Reagan: "We didn't want cheese. We just wanted out of the trap." The French attempt to deny Reagan even...
...nuclear arsenal, we must also be aware that not only is it wrong to attack civilian populations but it is also wrong to threaten to attack them as part of a strategy of deterrence." The bishops were applying the traditional teaching that it is as wrong to intend to commit an evil act as it is to commit it. In 1979, testifying on behalf of the hierarchy before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Cardinal Krol went further. He flatly ruled out use or "declared intent" to use nuclear weapons under any circumstances, presumably because masses of civilians would inevitably...
...only about 60% of the 23 million tons of U.S. grain that the Government offered to sell them, and their purchases are expected to be lower this year. At a meeting with American officials in Vienna last month, the Soviet Union's chief negotiator, Boris Gordeyev, refused to commit to any new grain orders. Said he, sounding like a closet free-enterpriser: "Like any commercial man, I will take the right time to buy cheap and sell dear...
...This time American diplomacy had helped to improve conditions within the Soviet Union. But in the absence of clear, consistent ideas about how the Soviet system really works, American efforts to make that system more compatible with U.S. interests and values have been doomed to repeat old errors and commit new ones...
...space, where the atmosphere-free environment provides the best possible view of the cosmos. Although there is no guarantee that he will have such an opportunity. Hoffman says at least that he "fully expects" to spend the rest of his life as a research scientist. Although he won't commit himself to the possibility of serving as an astronomer on some future space station. Barbara Hoffman says, "I know he would go." Asked if she would join him there, she adds, "I can't see myself wanting to do that...