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...powerful deterrent, but many Pentagon planners think that the critical "window of vulnerability" will not be closed until 1986, when cruise missiles and the MX missiles are deployed. During this period, they fear, the Soviet Union may be tempted to believe it has overall military superiority and therefore adopt a more aggressive world posture. Says a top U.S. general: "The threat is great. The risks are increasing." There are three main areas of concern...
Several students at the meeting said undergraduate organizations should ignore the new regulations if CHUL does not adopt their proposals...
Many committees seem to duplicate previous efforts every time a new assembly is elected and a new committee chairman takes charge. The assembly owes most of its successes to individual rather than group initiatives. As a group, the assembly tends to adopt stock answers--such as general resolutions and "open forums"--that represent a dissipation of energy and abandonment of responsibility...
...reason he is convinced that sanctions are forever doomed to be ineffectual, and a violent, internal upheaval is the only way to bring about apartheid's fall. Although Lamb says a commitment to majority rule should be top American policy in Africa, "if Black Africa wants the West to adopt sanctions, it is going to have to set an example first. For Black Africa to be yelling at the West now is nonsensical...
...past, de Villiers adds, U.S. industry has "tended to adopt the color of local industry; it hasn't been very innovative." She suggests that instead of pulling out, U.S. multinationals might train Africans for skilled and managerial positions...