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...that what the Senate was told by + Government witnesses during ratification hearings is not relevant to what the treaty really means on the subject of space-based defense. This outrages Nunn, who threatens to review the entire negotiation record of the INF pact unless the President and his advisers abandon the notion that they can reinterpret a treaty after the Senate has ratified...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How To Wreck the Treaty | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

Perhaps you may think, dear reader, that within the gates marked "abandon all hope, and grow in wisdom" this writer has acquired knowledge of a more earthy nature. For what is Harvard really known for, in the "real world," if not as the nursery of captains of industry and political masterminds? But the truth is that I never joined the Student Productions Association, never met the undergrads who wear power ties to lunch in the Union. I never tapped into the great politico-economic power grid they call "the old school tie." I may be an ass, but I have...

Author: By Jeffrey J. Wise, | Title: I Have My Pride | 12/16/1987 | See Source »

...hostages. No man can ask for freedom while denying it to others." One by one, the detainees placed machetes, pipes, handmade spears and nail-studded sticks in a pile amid the ruins of the administration building. Said a tearful detainee to the bishop: "We knew you wouldn't abandon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Promises, Promises | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield '53 said it is possible that U.S-Soviet relations will improve because of the summit but warned that, "[We should not] abandon our principles and run wild with the fervor of perfect universal peace...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Profs Discuss US-Soviet Talks | 12/8/1987 | See Source »

Interviewed on NBC's "Meet the Press," Baker predicted that Gorbachev would move forward on strategic-weapon cuts "perhaps without requiring as a precondition that the president abandon SDI or reduce SDI or postpone SDI, which he's not going...

Author: By Mark M. Colodny, WIRE DISPATCHES | Title: Summit Begins Today; Visit to Harvard Axed | 12/7/1987 | See Source »

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