Word: finalizing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...final selection committee, largely of African educators, placed in a dozen Nigerian and wrote to hundreds of secondary schools. The response, according to J. Eberly, assistant dean of students, was "tremendous." More 1,000 students applied for the scholarships...
...their initial working paper last spring the Committees suggested "destruction of thermonuclear weapons" as an "independent American initiative." In the final Statement, however, the passages on unilateral disarmament were omitted; the new emphasis is on "unilateral steps toward disarmament." For purposes of comparison, the working paper position of unilateral disarmament is included the following text, set off in and small type...
...because we fear that, unless we and others can offer an alternative to search for security through nuclear civilization will be destroyed by war. We hope, too, that as we for an alternative, we will also developing new modes of social growth. The present dependence on violence as the final arbiter of conflict, and the investment in armaments, plunge us into a current so awesome, fascinating and demanding that the complex and outrageous steps that must be taken to end the arms race us. We have not given up hope, although we recognize the obstacles to peace, and the radical...
...reject reliance upon weapons of mass destruction, and the logic of deterrence, as the final arbiter of international conflict...
...Since our desire is not briefly to defer our own destruction, but to work for an enobled human life, we call for a deep-rooted, immediate and total break with the policy of military deterrence. We must rennounce uncomprimisingly the organization for mass violence as a final arbiter of international conflict. The continued existence of these devices for killing populations leaves us exposed to the danger that they will be used in time of crisis regardless of previous resolve; therefore we must prevent their continued manufacture and posession. We know full well that the possible consequences of such radical action...