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...graver concern, he insisted, was the U.S. challenge. "There is only one pressure," he said. "That is the military, political and economic pressure of the United States." The Nicaraguan people, he added, "see the U.S.-sponsored counterrevolution destroy the schools, health centers, cooperatives. This causes people to commit themselves more readily to the patriotic military service." The "so-called Third World countries," he continued, must also worry. "If the U.S. invades Nicaragua," he said, "then this endangers the security of all developing countries...
...University or community suffers such a wild problem of relativity. What one woman views as harassment another views as a simple joke that anyone should be able to shrug off. What one man views as gallant, another woman views as an affront. Nevertheless clear trespasses occur, as well as graver incidents. Trying to deal with sexual harassment is trying to teach a large group of people sensitivity to nuances and facets of human behavior that to various people are inconceivable, silly, overly sensitive, or a matter of human dignity...
...immediate concern of security officials was whether the Walker ring had turned over key information on how the U.S. tracks submarines, thereby allowing the Soviets to develop evasion techniques. But of even graver concern was the possibility, considered remote by most experts, that the Walkers had compromised the security of America's sea-based strategic missile force. U.S. military planners contend that land-based missiles and bombers are highly vulnerable to Soviet pre-emptive attack. Only the sea leg of America's nuclear triad is thought to be impervious to detection. If either side could knock out the other...
...moderates in the Administration and around Washington are beginning to view the current stalemate in American-Soviet relations as symptomatic of a graver failing. As the moderate Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md) wrote in Foreign Affairs last June, the real danger in American-Soviet relations is simple: they focus only on arms, a subject on which the United States and Russia clearly have trouble agreeing. During the Reagan Administration that myopia has in fact increased, where once our negotiations with the Soviets included culture and trade, they have now been divided into several types of arms talks entirely bereft...
...aimed at Western Europe or to allow deployment of one single American intermediate range missile in Western Europe in the Geneva negotiations, the restoration of this dimension of the balance of forces in Europe reinforces the West's military deterrent Failure to have done so would have been far graver for the prospects of peace and freedom in Europe. Now that it is being done, the question arises how the military balance relates to the balance of political, psychological and moral forces...