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...speech last week (see NATION), President Reagan moved to seize the opportunity. In.offering to drop plans to deploy U.S. intermediate-range missiles if the Soviets dismantle theirs, he tried, belatedly and for the first time, to allay Europe's roiling fears. He also sought to undercut Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had skillfully exploited America's essential and long-held views on nuclear strategy to portray the Soviet Union as the only superpower devoted to the search for peace (see ESSAY). While Reagan's proposal was hailed by Europe's leaders, the reaction of the peace groups was ambivalent. They...
Uncertainties in the market combatted by mastery and planning. Every American presidential candidate has tried to allay our anxiety by showing us how we are all going to get somewhere. McMichael insists that planning and anxiety are almost Siamese twins. Americans, with their city planning, economic planning, estate planning, family planning, with their game plans and saving plans and lay-away plans, would seem to be the most anxious people on earth...
...just declared that the Soviet Union has no intention of [being the first to use] nuclear weapons. That rules out a pre-emptive strike. Why shouldn't the U.S. respond with a similar statement? Such a statement would do much to calm the very tense atmosphere and allay fear. None of us will be forgiven if nuclear weapons are ever used. We rule out the possibility of limited nuclear war. In a nuclear war, whether supposedly limited or unlimited, it will be difficult to tell the victor from the vanquished. We're not advocates of a strategy...
Admissions officers in turn attempted to allay concerns, sometimes broaching the Klitgaard subject themselves when travelling in places where newspaper headlines about it had recently appeared. Officials tried to demonstrate the importance of diversity to Harvard and, in general the successfulness of Blacks here. They also stressed that Klitgaard's preliminary report reflects only his own opinion. The officers insisted that the report has had no effect on their affirmative action policies and explained that they approached their decisions about whom to admit in exactly the same manner as before last fall...
While President Bok, who was angered over the unauthorized release of the report, and other administrators attempted to allay fears that the document might adversely affect Harvard's admissions policies, more than 200 incensed students rallied in the Yard and marched through University Hall in late October, demanding an increased commitment to affirmative action and an official public denial of the Klitgaard report...