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...nuclear accident in their own backyards. At a Boston hearing last week, four Army generals and colonels were asked what would happen if there were an accident. When the military men quickly ducked the issue, they were confronted by M.I.T. Visiting Professor George Rathjens, who was deputy director of the Pentagon's Advance Research Projects Agency under President Kennedy. "An accidental explosion would cause total destruction for a radius of five miles," he said, though he allowed that any such mishap was "extremely improbable...
Organic Link. The institute's working hypothesis was probably summed up by Arbatov in his only published work as I.A.S. director-a review in the government newspaper Izvestia of the Brookings Institution's Agenda for the Nation. Said Arbatov: "One discovers in this book what is probably one of the basic problems of the U.S. today-the organic link between internal difficulties that have reached an unprecedented height and the foreign policy course that Washington pursues...
...Kremlin (Arbatov is said to have the ear of Premier Aleksei Kosygin). But the institute has announced an ambitious publication list-none of it so far available-for this year. Arbatov plans to bring out a monograph showing the influence of ideology on foreign policy. Deputy Director Evgeny Sergeevich Shcherchnov, an economist, is scheduled to publish a study of trade policy, and a group of specialists, including Gromyko, is expected to produce a work on U.S. foreign policy doctrines and machinery. There are also plans for a regular journal, and even talk of teaming U.S. and Soviet specialists to work...
...however, they will cause few sleepless nights for party-liners. Arbatov, in his review of the Brookings report, rather grandly diagnosed many U.S. problems as "the natural outcome of the social system and the way of life prevailing in the country." As for Nixon, the institute's scientific director, Vladimir Filatov, last week safely predicted that "he will be true to his class...
...Blake's most significant moves so far has been to cultivate young, revolution-minded churchmen from the Third World. Among his major appointments is the Rev. Philip Potter, a West Indian Methodist, as director of the Division of World Missions and Evangelism. Echoing the dissatisfaction of other ecclesiastics from Asia, Africa and Latin America, Potter said in Tulsa last week: "Both the capitalist countries and the Socialist countries have serious weakness. Under our freedom in the West, the minority has the freedom to rot. We in the Third World don't want to be faced with either/or...