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...pipeline. A semiconductor chip that U.S. companies cannot sell to the Soviets has been licensed for production in Brazil, which is not bound by the embargo. The microchip, in fact, is a component in a popular computer game that is for sale in Western European toy stores. Says Samuel Pisar, a Paris-based international trade expert: "The U.S. and its Western allies have simply never formulated a consistent policy on exports of technology to the Soviets. Decisions on whether to sell or not vacillate continually, depending almost totally upon the political climate of the moment...
International Lawyer Samuel Pisar, a longtime advocate of more U.S.-Soviet trade, believes that the U.S. and U.S.S.R. must formulate a set of principles to spur commercial interchanges. Among other things, Pisar believes that the Soviets must agree to announce plans for grain purchases in advance in order to avoid inflationary disruption of world markets. The agreement on the U.S. trade bill has opened opportunities for businesslike relations between the world's most awesome nuclear powers that for the sake of peace, cannot be allowed to go unexploited...
...Samuel Pisar, who is a naturalized American living in Paris and the widely acclaimed author of Coexistence and Commerce, is perhaps the paradigm of the existential, communal kind of Jew. Of the 900 students in his Polish elementary school, Pisar is one of two to survive the holocaust. He calls the communal ties of Jews a "bond of suffering that comes whenever Jews are threatened." He felt the pull of that bond when he attended an international conference in Kiev last summer. After a VIP tour of the city, he became uneasy. "The [concentration camp] numbers...
Over and above these pressing concerns, some Jews began to question the wisdom of tying Jewish identity too closely to the precarious existence of a political state. Even International Lawyer Samuel Pisar, 43, an Auschwitz survivor and firmly pro-Israel, warns that "to put the greatness of Jews into that little basket [Israel] is very dangerous. What if it goes...
...SAMUEL PISAR Paris...