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...should stop building them. That is a fact that John F. Kennedy '40 realized almost 20 years ago. "Our problems, "he said in his famous 1963 speech on arms control, "are man-made. Therefore they can be solved by man." Approval of the freeze resolutions by Congress would affirm Kennedy's belief that we can exercise ultimate control over our own destiny...
...Nixon Administration sought a foreign policy that eschewed both moralistic crusading and escapist isolationism. The subtlest critique of our policy held that our emphasis on national interest ran counter to American idealism. On this thesis, Americans must affirm general values or they will lack the resolution and stamina to overcome the Soviet challenge; America must commit itself to a crusade against Communism, not just to geopolitical opposition to Soviet encroachment, or its policy will be based on quicksand. But obsession with ideology may translate into an unwillingness to confront seemingly marginal geopolitical challenges because they appear not to encapsulate...
...responsibility of leaders is not simply to affirm an objective. It is above all to endow it with a meaning compatible with the values of their society. If peace is equated simply with the absence of war, if the yearning for peace is not allied with a sense of justice, it can become an abject pacifism that turns the world over to the most ruthless. To build peace on reciprocal restraint; to suffuse our concept of order with our country's commitment to freedom; to strive for peace without abdication and for order without unnecessary confrontation-therein resides...
Tough talk from new friends wanted to express an even stronger and closer cooperation and community of views, in order to affirm our presence on the world stage and to enhance the importance of Europe." So declared French President FranÇois Mitterrand at the conclusion of a two-day meeting with his neighbor, West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. Clad in dark, diplomatic blue as they sat under the crystal chandeliers of the Elysee's Salle des Fetes, the two leaders were explaining the unusual eight-point "Franco-German declaration" that capped their summit in Paris last week...
Tonight, students have what is probably their last chance to force the Corporation to re-affirm the absolute ban of years past, a concession students won through their protests in 1978. The Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility meets at 7:30 p.m. to consider the case-by-case proposal: if the ACSR lends its support to that recommendation, the Corporation is virtually certain to approve it permanently. Only the loudest of objections by the ACSR has a chance to influence the Corporation and only the loudest of protests by students, in turn, seems likely to move the ACSR...