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...RECENT EXERCISE in one-upsmanship exhibited by the Salient editors is all too easy to ridicule. The substantive point of the majority opinion is actually quite correct--Harvard divestiture from companies doing business with the USSR would indeed most likely prove an empty, even a foolish, gesture. Where the majority falls down is where the divestiture movement always falls down: If divestiture cannot be justified on purely moral grounds, it cannot be justified at all, because its results are impossible to predict; and if it can be justified solely on moral grounds, then there is every reason to support...
...perhaps even democratic society there, and to depict the Soviet Union as a nation where U.S. economic pressure can do no good. But no hard facts support the positive effect of economic pressure on South Africa (indeed, the opposite may actually be true), whereas U.S. sanctions against the USSR have sometimes, albeit rarely, produced small positive results. The increased emigration of Jews in the late '70s under the pressure of the Jackson-Vanik amendment is only one instance described in the Salient...
Nuclear weapons policy has been left to the so-called experts and politicians for 40 years. In that time the nuclear arsenals of the US and the USSR have grown to comprise 50,000 nuclear weapons with an explosive power of 15,000 megatons (5,000 times the explosive power used in all of World War II). Now the arms race is headed into space. So much for the ability of experts, such as Professor Pipes, and politicians to control this deadly game...
IPPNW rarely takes a position on particular arms control proposals. When it does, it directs its appeal to both the US and the USSR. One month before the Soviet Union announced its moratorium on nuclear testing, IPPNW formally appealed to President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev to halt nuclear testing. The Soviets have responded and we hope the US will do the same. A mutual moratorium on nuclear testing is in the self interest of both nations, indeed the world. It is a critical first step in slowing, and ultimately reversing this nuclear madness. Peter A. Zheutlin Director, Public Affairs...
Alburt, who left the USSR in 1979, said "international chess ambassadors" such as he was must follow government instructions regarding winning and losing games...