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Moreover, any divestment action coming purely as a concession would lack moral conviction. It would mortgage Columbia's intellectual credibility, and it would remove the symbolism of divestment from a moral plane altogether. The proponents of divestment must win their struggle through rational persuasion, not extortion. Otherwise, the most they...
The largest strategic missile in the U.S. arsenal, the MX has sparked one controversy after another over four Administrations (see box). The latest rescue effort waged in its behalf stems from a compromise reached last year with a group of House Democrats led by Les Aspin, the new (since January...
Knowing that Mulroney could not go back to Ottawa without at least some concession on acid rain, Administration officials came up with a plan to appoint a joint U.S.-Canadian team to examine the issue. The President and the Prime Minister announced that former Transportation Secretary Drew Lewis and former...
For a long time, Schuller confesses, he harbored doubts about his own self- worth. Born in Iowa to a devout, hardscrabble farm family, he resolved early on to be a preacher. After seven years of study at Hope College and Western Theological Seminary, both in Holland, Mich., he was ordained...
The agreement is an adjunct to the 1970 nonproliferation treaty, designed to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons. More than 90 other nations have similar arrangements with the IAEA, including the U.S., which signed an inspection agreement in 1980. Moscow did not agree to the idea in principle until 1982...