Word: favor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compromise on SDI can be reached later. In this way the dangerous deadlock in the negotiations could be overcome. I shall try to analyze the ideas that led to the package approach and demonstrate their unsoundness. I shall also attempt to demonstrate the unsoundness of the arguments in favor of SDI itself. I'll begin with the latter...
...space stations and any devices launched from them would be very vulnerable to pre-emptive attack, and lasers capable of igniting fires at a distance of 100 kilometers (some 62 miles) or more must be extremely powerful and are not very reliable. But the main argument advanced in favor of the package approach is the potential of SDI against reduced Soviet ICBM forces...
...that the strategic position of the U.S.S.R. and the stability of the international situation would be different from the situation that would be the case if the package approach were maintained (and the Soviet Union's political stand would be enhanced ((by its show of flexibility))). Therefore I wholeheartedly favor renunciation of the package approach...
...students and Chun today seem to be on a collision course. The protesters are clear about what they want. "Most Koreans, whether students or not, favor a return to civilian government," says a former council president at Seoul National University who was jailed for 1 1/2 years for organizing a reading circle. "We want to see a change in the constitution and direct election of a President. This is the most important thing to end the crisis in the country...
...even the most militant protesters admit to favoring a North Korean- style Communist government. "Actually we are in favor of democracy first and then unification," said a Korea University sophomore. Such views reflect a brand of thought that one U.S. diplomat labels "infantile Marxism." Says a Seoul prosecutor who has handled many cases against radical students: "They harbor some romantic views on the nature of the socialist state, and their idealism leads them to think that some of the problems of our society could be solved by socialism. But few understand or are dedicated to bringing the North Korean system...