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"You can't change the attitudes of this country unless you change its economic incentives," Rochow declared. Because of its costliness, space travel would allow our "war economy" to remain prosperous without manufacturing armaments, he contended.
He raised this hope after sketching a rather gloomy picture of prospects for ending the cold war by formal negotiations. "Disarmament by agreement is a contradiction in terms, unless the causes of the conflict are also resolved," he maintained. "Are you going to get people to agree not to disagree...
Another alternative -- regulated disarmament under a world government--provides a better hope, he said, but emphasis should be on relieving tensions instead of coercing nations. "We should rely on strengthening world law, and on obtaining peace through law rather than through force," he declared, noting that the United States has...
Discussing the U.N., Rochow said that it needs more attributes of a world government, such as the power to tax. "It should be strengthened to make it more than a debating society, although that is better than nothing at all."
A Congolese student leader yesterday called for an end to the East-West rivalry in his country as the best means of ending factionalism and restoring political stability.