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...reason for the initial lack of opposition is the widespread belief that the Soviet Union is an aggressor. Said Berkeley Mathematics Professor Stephen Smale, who demonstrated against the Viet Nam War and is now the father of a draft-age son: "That gives [draft registration] a different character. It's a long way from what happened in the 1960s." Paul Ginsberg, dean of students at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, cited another reason for the relative quiet: "The vast majority of students were only 10 or 11 when we last had a draft. They are only vaguely aware...
Princeton won seven of the nine individual swimming events, took both relays, and set five Blodgett Pool records. More importantly, they seized the role of the aggressor from the beginning, and each clutch performance seemed to inspire greater ones as the meet went...
...show the Soviet leaders and people that they cannot invade another nation with impunity. If our response is to continue sports as usual in the capital of the aggressor, the other steps we are taking to deter aggression will be undermined...
Round the globe, other nations were also anxiously reassessing the international situation in the wake of the Soviet move into Afghanistan. One nearly universal conclusion: the U.S.S.R. is an aggressor and must be so branded. All Washington's allies, though hesitant about joining the U.S. in retaliatory measures, sharply denounced the Soviet action. British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said: "We cannot just stand back and see Russia do what they have done in Afghanistan." West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, in an address to the Bundestag, used some of his strongest language so far to condemn the Soviet aggression. He warned...
Though the Stockholm syndrome is different from brainwashing, the same principle is involved: identification with the aggressor. Says David G. Hubbard, a Dallas psychiatrist who has handled many terrorist incidents: "It's brainwashing if an enemy does it to you. If a sergeant does it to a Marine recruit, it's called good indoctrination. The Iranians didn't maliciously set out to arrange the brains of the hostages. But you get something of the same effect just by the constant threat of death. The more primitive the threat, the more apt you are to induce a kind...