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...return to cold war confrontation. Ford is also pressing for a new Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT) based on the agreement he reached with Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev at their November 1974 meeting in Vladivostok; it would limit each superpower to 2,400 strategic nuclear-weapon launchers. This accord has been delayed because of disagreements (within the Administration as well as between Washington and Moscow) over the definition of "strategic nuclear weapon...
...merely a means. Yet the human spirit and will have prevailed over military and material strength. American rationalization of its own global interests has led to misconceptions about the hold of nationalism in Asia and elsewhere. Even the idea of nonalignment is castigated as unethical, although recent efforts at accord with other countries are recognition of the inescapability of coexistence. In the founding of the United Nations, America knew that world peace and world stability could emerge only through the cooperative endeavor of all of the nations of the earth...
...maintains that Moynihan's activities are in accord with University policy. There is a precedent for Moynihan's behavior. In Massachusett's Senate contest of 1962, two professors, Republican George Cabot Lodge '50 and peace candidate H. Stuart Hughes, ran against each other for a seat eventually won by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.). Lodge resigned from the faculty, but Hughes continued to teach while he campaigned...
...students involved in the discussion say it was an extremely open one, with everyone putting in his or her two bits for group consideration. Finally, each of the men withdrew of their own accord, and Hubbard offered to teach them the same material through independent studies. In effect, the group resolved the issue by settling for a 'separate but equal' policy in academics...
...demanding an enforcement of the so-called Cairo agreement, a 1969 deal that was supposed to control the movement of Palestinian guerrillas in Lebanon. The P.L.O. has ignored the agreement from the beginning by carrying out operations against Israel from Lebanon as it saw fit. To obey the Cairo accord now, Arafat realized, would be to destroy the last unrestricted political base left to the Palestinians in the Middle East. The P.L.O. chief refused to withdraw from the mountains and sent urgent pleas for support to other Arab countries, including Kuwait and Saudi Arabia...