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...Georgia Democrat Sam Nunn sees it, Hatfield's argument requires the West to practice "self-deterrence." Said Nunn: "I remind my colleagues that the purpose of deterrence is to deter Soviet aggression, not to deter ourselves from responding to that aggression...
Senate backers of the neuts were strongly supported by the military. One Pentagon official said, "NATO is a defense alliance. It won't attack. Any attack will be conducted on friendly territory. We want to deter attack and defend territory without destroying what we want to save." In Belgium, NATO Commander General Alexander Haig Jr. said that America's allies had given the bomb their "enthusiastic support...
...expects the new code, which carries penalties ranging up to $4 million for infractions, to halt completely the flow of tainted funds into Switzerland. But Swiss National Bank President Fritz Leutwiler, who has long crusaded for such reforms, hopes that the code will deter banks from actively assisting their customers in breaking national laws. Says he: "We are no longer assuming that every banker is a gentleman and that he observes the rules." Leutwiler speculates that the new code may even force the eventual closing of a "small minority" of lesser banks that have operated on the fringes...
...says, "Soweto riots could just become an annual event." And yet the present situation-a continuing white sense of living under siege, a continuing black fever of resentment-cannot go on indefinitely without serious damage to the country. Fear would spread like slow poison (and, among other things, would deter investment from abroad). Sooner or later, the jailed always deform the jailers...
...fighting. For the near term, some form of qualified black suffrage should be the goal. Even most black spokesmen in South Africa plead only for a form of "sharing in the decision-making process." Would this satisfy the black nationalists elsewhere in Africa? Surely not, but that should not deter us. Serious change-a serious political role for blacks combined with genuine retreat from apartheid and genuine steps toward economic equality -would make a tremendous difference...