Word: adopted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first-use policy is the only rational one. The question which in the long run must be addressed by the U.S. government is whether it will rely indefinitely on nuclear deterrence to preserve its interests or will adopt a new posture which stresses non-nuclear forces. It is not an easy choice and neither answer is fully, satisfying. Where is Archimedes when we need...
First year graduate student Stephen A Ray '81 said yesterday that he understand why the College's refusal to adopt a policy of non discrimination towards gays means so much to members of the Gay Students Association...
...scientific council at Kat's institute proceeded to strip him of his position and his Doctor of Sciences degree (roughly equivalent to a Ph.D.) by adopting a resolution denouncing him as a traitor and citing his application to emigrate to "a country hostile to the Soviet Union and to our Arab friends. "Kats wrote a letter of protest to the president of the Academy of Sciences, quoting the provision of the Helsinki Final Act, signed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1975, which stipulates that a person who has applied to emigrate shall not be subject to changes in rights or duties...
...quiet protests against the perils of nuclear war, symbolized the growing pressure on the White House to negotiate a strategic weapons freeze with the Soviets-a position that is morally worthy of debate but diplomatically dangerous. Meanwhile, the Administration was still trying to work out a stance to adopt in strategic arms control negotiations with Moscow. And other problems loomed: with China, angry over the White House support for Taiwan; with Central America, where rightists were forming a government in El Salvador, and the Nicaraguans were asking for talks; with Cuba, where the U.S. reacted to a bid for negotiations...
Wylie added that the Council had also passed a resolution to "adopt" a sister city in Russia by having Cambridge citizens write letters to their counterparts in the Soviet Union. The Council hopes that other U.S. cities will follow Cambridge's lead, Wylie said...