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Although the sect's Utopian approach to global problems often sounds like an Oriental echo of Moral Re-Armament, Ikeda carries more political clout than most religious leaders. His organization is the founder of Japan's Komeito (Clean Government) party, which emerged second only to the combined forces of the Socialists and Communists as an opposition party in the last election. Moreover, on his global mission for what he calls "lasting peace," Ikeda last year was received by both Soviet Premier Aleksei Kosygin and Chinese Premier Chou Enlai. When he visits the U.S. this week to address...
Some second thoughts about détente set in on both sides. In the U.S. there was much concern about Soviet backing of the Arab states against Israel and the limitations on emigration of Soviet Jews. There was anxiety about the apparent Soviet determination to press ahead with vast armament programs so that a SALT agreement with regard to offensive weapons remained in serious doubt. The 1974 summit produced only limited gains on that front...
...race. SALT I merely confirmed the existing strategic balance. The U.S. gave up nothing in SALT I that it had not already relinquished in reduced budgets for missiles. "While the U.S. had its eyes fixed on Viet Nam, the Soviet Union had been concentrating on vastly increasing its strategic armament." says Kremlinologist Richard Lowenthal. "The Soviets entered the SALT negotiations hi a much stronger position than they had been in [in the early '60s], so that any gains they made were done through increased power and not through negotiations...
...Hafez Assad, in Moscow last week on a six-day visit, got the kind of reception reserved for much more impor tant chiefs of government. At a Krem lin dinner for Assad, Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev promised the Syrian President unlimited amounts of Soviet planes, missiles and other armament to replace Syrian losses to Israel in the October war. The reason, Brezhnev explained, was that the Russians were not able to accept the status quo in the Middle East today. The Soviet leader com plained that the "situation is still fraught with danger . . . The danger is that while there...
...Israelis and the Syrians both paid a price for their violations of the international conventions. In the future, there will continue to be the temptation to commit violations. With increasing armament sophistication, sentiment may arise for more thorough international controls. A recent report by the International Red Cross anticipates public outcry against "Weapons that May Cause Unnecessary Suffering or Have Indiscriminate Effects" (available for Swiss Francs from 7 Ave, de la Paix, Ch-1211 Geneva). The report discusses the historical and legal background, the military uses and the medical effects of weapons including small-calibre projectiles, blast and fragmentation weapons...