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Besides drawing the Saudis further into the Middle East peace process, the U.S. hopes they will continue to pump large supplies of oil at steady prices, and join at least a tacit American-sponsored "strategic consensus" to deter Soviet thrusts into the region. But approval of the arms sale by no means guarantees that these American dreams will come true. A day after the Senate vote, at a meeting of the OPEC cartel in Geneva, the Saudis went along with a pricing agreement that would lower the top prices charged by some members but would also increase the cost...
Charging that capital punishment does not deter criminals and that the "eye-for-an-eye" theory of justice is outdated, Hugo A. Bedau, Fletcher Professor of Philosophy at Tufts University, said last night that "there are no crimes that are suitably punished with the death penalty...
...European allies accepted years ago: the use of tactical nuclear weapons would not necessarily lead to nuclear holocaust. If the Soviets were to attack in Europe with their overwhelming superiority in conventional arms, NATO could choose to respond on the battlefield with tactical nuclear weapons, a threat meant to deter any invasion in the first place...
...President had meant. While not flatly reiterating the point that the U.S. and its NATO allies could try to stem a Soviet conventional attack on Europe by the use of tactical nuclear weapons, Reagan did say, "Our strategy remains one of flexible response: maintaining an assured military capability to deter the use of force, conventional or nuclear, by the Warsaw Pact, at the lowest possible level." Reagan went on to say: "In a nuclear war, all mankind would lose." And he warned the Soviets that "no aggressor should believe that the use of nuclear weapons in Europe could reasonably...
...billion in arms and aid. As Buckley told a House committee recently, the invasion of Afghanistan has made it more important "to keep the Soviets from thinking they can coerce, subvert or intimidate Pakistan." But many Congressmen are concerned that Pakistan will use its arms not to deter the Soviets but to challenge its historic enemy, India. Says India's President, Neelam Sanjiva Reddy: "This could upset the existing balance and start an arms race...