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...seem all that isolated from the country's business. Foe McCarthy and the Justice Department were hounding Harvard professors who refused to tell Congress about the political activities of their colleagues. Harvard students helped organize a protest rally at Fancuil Hall when Soviet troops crushed the Hungarian uprising. And when Sputnik went up, several Crimson editors had front row seats for the nation's embarrassment: the center of the embryonic US tracking system was at Harvard, but when the Russian satellite began bleeping through space, the center's electronic gear, communications equipment, even its desks, were still waiting...
...moment, the paramilitary pressure being brought to bear on Nicaragua seems to be working. The Sandinista leaders have recently shown a willingness to negotiate. Moreover, it is a sign to friend and foe alike that the U.S. is prepared to draw the line against the spread of Marxist-Leninist revolution. But as usual, covert action carries heavy risks. For one, the operation could prove unsuccessful, leaving a sediment of anti-American feelings. For another, the domestic debate over covert action is costing Reagan valuable political capital. The question now is whether the U.S. can sustain its covert operation long enough...
...Viet Nam, unifying North and South since July 1976, is vexed by troubles at home and abroad. Its economy struggles along, its 57 million people are divided and demoralized, its leadership is doddering and ineffectual. A reluctant ally of the Soviet Union, Viet Nam faces China, a historic foe, to the north and finds itself bogged down in a drawn-out war in Kampuchea in the south. Finally, Hanoi is in the ignominious position of wanting better ties with he U.S.-only to be turned down cold by Washington...
Ever since World War II, when the United States and the Soviet Union first found themselves facing each other as dominant world powers, policymakers here have been unable to determine exactly what Soviet intentions really are. Presidents have alternately viewed the Russians as a hostile foe to whom vigilance is the only appropriate response or a superpower with whom peaceful coexistence is possible. Whether this inconsistency stems from an erratic Soviet course or from the observers' ideological fluctuation, arms control will be impossible even to begin without some consensus on Soviet foreign policy...
Once compelled to disarm Leoanon Israel acted not with brutal decisiveness but with the supreme caution of a nation abhorrent to war Guided by the most stringent of ethics. Israeli forces resisted the indecent trials of an ignoble foe. They never veered from a commitment to morality even when it hundred then immediate goals Conscience forced Israeli tank drivers to halt along routes where the PLO had placed Lebanese babies. It curtailed the assault of houses of worship where the PLO were strategically ensconced. And it prolonged a war of atrophy in Beirut where citizens held captive were spared...