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...unlikelihood of Kremlin powers reversing their decision to place the prominent physicist and dissident in internal exile didn't deter the Physics Department from inviting Sakharov to spend a semester here as a Loeb Lecturer...
...show the Soviet leaders and people that they cannot invade another nation with impunity. If our response is to continue sports as usual in the capital of the aggressor, the other steps we are taking to deter aggression will be undermined...
...Europe seemed too ham handed and provocative, given the Communists' obvious need to broaden the political base of the Kabul regime. An armed Soviet takeover of the country was discounted for the same reason. More prescient intelligence would have enabled the U.S. to mount a diplomatic offensive to deter the Soviets, or at least to prepare countermeasures in advance...
...doubts that the proposed embargo would end the eleven-week-old hostage crisis. They also wondered if the U.S. was wise to go ahead with it in the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh boasted that "these kinds of pressures don't deter us at all," and sternly advised other nations to stay out of Washington's "political games." Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that Iran would immediately cut off oil shipments "to any country that joins the U.S. economic boycott against Iran." That threat was particularly alarming to Japan, which...
...sympathy before they can get together. And, of course, there has to be something to sunder them at the end. But nowadays all the old reliable problems - differences of years, background and religion, for example - are carelessly surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair has led the creators of this film to bedrock taboo: the possibility of incest...