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Restlessness is a human impulse, something in the genes. We need to find out what is in the next valley. The hominid hunter began it, and people over millenniums traveled for conquest and trade, to find new homes...
Changes are that the Administration has not yet found its own soul. It remains divided between ideologues who view Moscow as so conquest-bent and hopelessly unregenerate as to make arms control efforts a waste of time, and former detente disciples who still believe that the Russians can be dealt with on such matters, given verifiability. Despite its rhetorical broadsides against Communism and the "failed" Soviet "empire." Reagan's speech contained traces of what for him qualities as conciliation. "We will negotiate seriously, in good faith, and carefully consider all proposals made by the Soviet Union. Reagan promised...
...reasonable to believe that a nation with the goal of world conquest and domination will lay down its nuclear weapons because we, the U.S., set a good example...
...species then, speaking different languages, eyeing each other warily through a chain-link fence of chromosomes. For guys, girls were the ideal, the adversary, the enigma. Who knows what they want? Marriage, maybe, but not sex. This made courtship a frustrating series of skirmishes that could end only in conquest or stalemate, never détente. Who knows how to talk to them? A young man's sensible priorities- pro football, rhythm and blues, hanging out-were adolescent irrelevancies to his date, or even his mate. Then again, why bother? "You wanna talk," philosophizes one fellow in this terrific...
These and other advocates of what they regard as a tough-minded, unemotional view of the issue believe that the U.S. could and should fight a nuclear war with the Soviets if the only alternatives were either Soviet conquest of an area vital to American interests or, worse, a Soviet nuclear attack on the U.S. Indeed, that view is at the very heart of U.S. policy toward its Soviet adversaries and its West European and Japanese allies...