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This information is just what the SALT II critics have been waiting for in order to kill the treaty. The SALT II treaty is the product of hard work by devoted individuals and many concessions by both sides. It would be a pity for it all to be discarded merely because of the timing of an announcement concerning a virtually harmless Soviet brigade in Cuba...
...Mexico's employment problem. The country has one of the Western Hemisphere's higher birth rates. Even taking oil wealth into account, the expected population growth (from 68 million today to an estimated 132 million by the year 2000) threatens to wipe out rapid increases in the gross national product ($92 billion...
That revolutionary rhetoric is the product of the 1910 revolution, which lasted eleven years, and, by some accounts, killed more than 1 million Mexicans. One of its lasting products was the constitution, written in 1917, that is still the country's basic charter. To prevent the rise of another Diaz-like strongman, it prohibits the re-election of most public officials, including the President. To protect the country's "patrimony" from foreign domination, it limits the ownership of land and natural resources to Mexican citizens. In the name of social progress, it promises free universal education and the restoration...
Without our incursion, the Communists would have taken over Cambodia years earlier. The bizarre argument has indeed been made, with a glaring lack of substantiation, that the cruelty of the Khmer Rouge in victory was the product of five years of American and Cambodian efforts to resist them. No one can accept this as an adequate explanation for the murderous Khmer Rouge. Sihanouk does not believe this; they were men he had kicked out of Cambodia in 1967 as a menace to his country. He told me in April 1979 that the Khmer Rouge leaders were "always killers...
Dobrynin avoided these professional deformations. He was a classic product of the Communist society. The first member of his family to go to a university, he was trained as an engineer. Whether he owed his flexibility to his training in a subject relatively free of deadening ideology, or to a natural disposition, he was one of the few Soviet diplomats of my acquaintance who could understand the psychology of others...