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...word détente. He complained that the decision was a petty capitulation to right-wing critics and tended to undercut the long-range policy the Administration intends to pursue. Publicly Kissinger made a point of reasserting that the U.S. would continue its "dual policy" of attempting to resist and deter Soviet adventurism while striving for "more constructive relations" with the Kremlin...
...threat of the secret police on campus does not deter Keenan, who says he is not sure whether to believe all the reports of their role in classes. He says he has "no other information" than what he reads in the Village Voice, adding that he doesn't know anybody who does know more. Keenan doesn't doubt the existence of the secret police; rather, he applies his principle of moral calculus to them. "As someone who spends most of his waking hours dealing with a country with which a good deal more is known about the secret police...
Beyond the immediate objectives of the hookers' union are some long-range attitudinal and political goals. COYOTE's ultimate aim is the decriminalization of prostitution--not its legalization. The existing laws which make prostitution a crime do not deter a prostitute from plying her trade; instead, they engulf the hooker in a dangerous, de-humanizing trap which ensnares her more deeply in crime. Illegality creates the necessity for pimps and opens the arena to organized crime...
These factors may or may not deter crime, but they will surely lead to overcrowding and understaffing unless prison budgets are increased to carry the new load...
Suicidal Move. For its part, the M.P.L.A. pledged to stop at the Zaïre border, hoping to deter Zaïre's President Mobutu Sese Seko-a strong supporter of the F.N.L.A.-from making a retaliatory move against the oil-rich northern enclave of Cabinda. In any case, the M.P.L.A. has stationed 2,000 of its best troops in Cabinda, helped by some Cubans and armed with Soviet T-54 tanks. Thus it is unlikely that Mobutu could overrun Cabinda even if he tried...