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...vivid. Withdrawing from Olympic competition and introducing resolutions in the United Nations are too feeble responses to Soviet intervention in independent states. We must let the Soviets know that we will not hesitate to prevent the sale of advanced technology, to cut off scientific and cultural exchanges and to bolster our new alliance with China (possibly even with the sale of non-nuclear arms and computer technology) if Soviet troops invade Poland. We should not renounce the SALT negotiation process, engage in a costly arms race or attempt to starve the Soviet people. But we must not wallow in guilt...
Moscow was quick to issue a sharp rejoinder. It denounced the State Department's remarks as "deliberate lies" intended to bolster U.S. "allegations of Soviet-backed international terrorism...
...conjunction of cold-war ideologues, military researchers, huge defense contractors, and the Pentagon are exacerbated by two political forces. One is a strong belief in the coercive, political utility of nuclear weapons and the other is the frequent summoning of the "Soviet threat" to bolster electoral popularity...
...agreed that only Israeli citizens should participate in policy making, but argued that the Israeli government often uses the support of the American Jewish constituency to bolster its position internally...
Arthur S. Bolster, professor of Education and Glicklich's academic adviser, testified yesterday on her competence as a teacher. "I would have, and I did when grading, judged her skill and ability somewhat above the average of master's candidates at Harvard," he said...