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Moderates in the Government, especially in the State Department, welcomed the report, hoping that it would strengthen their hand against the Pentagon. Burt encountered Aspin at a party and told him that the coalition that was forming between the Scowcroft commission and Congress "may yet get this Administration off the dime in arms control. Just up." keep the pressure The MX survived a number of votes, but by diminishing margins. By last summer, White House officials were hinting to key Congressmen that in addition to the lifting of the 850 ceiling on launchers, a number of the other more unrealistic...
Weinberger also lobbied hard with the new Secretary of State, George Shultz. "Cap has a point about throw weight," Shultz told his startled and discouraged staff after a meeting with Weinberger. It was almost exactly what Reagan had said more than a year earlier. Burt worked to convince the Secretary of State that throw weight would "just...
Meanwhile, Burt and others at the State Department were pushing their own new plan for START. It came to be called the "framework approach," and it would entail keeping launcher limits along the lines of both SALT II and the Soviet proposal in Geneva, but adding limits on warheads and cruise missiles. The U.S. would be giving up, once and for all, its attempt to focus exclusively on fast flyers, particularly MlRVed ICBMs. At the same time, the Soviets would have had to accept much more severe limits on their MlRVs than under their own proposal...
Lewontin and his co-authors point out that ostensibly objective studies such as those done by Burt are merely tools which these scientists use to confirm a racist and sexist status quo. Biological determinism is just as subjective as any political theory, Lewontin asserts, and must be considered as such. He writes...
Point by point, the authors of Not in Our Genes shoot down the traditional studies which confirm existing social conditions. Cyril Burt's often-quoted identical twin studies, conducted in the 1950s, supposedly proved the inhabitability of IQ. Those who would later argue for a meritocracy based on IQ--such as Arthur Jensen, in his famous and influential article on the subject in the Harvard Educational Review published in 1969--drew upon Burt's data. But Lewontin and his cohorts point out the fraudulence of Burt's evidence. Not only are there serious problems with the validity of these separated...