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...first term, and Beryl Sprinkel, the Under Secretary for Monetary Affairs, did not believe in taking an activist policy role. Strong advocates of free markets, both men believed that the private sector should be left alone to solve world economic problems. They opposed intervening in currency exchanges to halt the rise of the dollar. They also believed that the world debt crisis could be handled mainly between private banks and foreign countries, with a minimum of government help. Those policies alienated many U.S. allies, particularly the Europeans, who favored a more activist approach...
IPPNW rarely takes a position on particular arms control proposals. When it does, it directs its appeal to both the US and the USSR. One month before the Soviet Union announced its moratorium on nuclear testing, IPPNW formally appealed to President Reagan and General Secretary Gorbachev to halt nuclear testing. The Soviets have responded and we hope the US will do the same. A mutual moratorium on nuclear testing is in the self interest of both nations, indeed the world. It is a critical first step in slowing, and ultimately reversing this nuclear madness. Peter A. Zheutlin Director, Public Affairs...
...weapons. After months of stonewalling at the talks that began in Geneva in March, the Kremlin had at last presented a specific offer, one foreshadowed by Kremlin Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in a letter to President Reagan a few days earlier. The prospect of serious bargaining, however, did nothing to halt the war of words. On a highly publicized visit to France, Gorbachev played the familiar Soviet game of trying to divide the Western alliance. He offered to cut side deals for weapons reductions with Britain and France and unilaterally declared reductions on Soviet missiles aimed at Europe. In a speech...
Paul Cameron suggests that to halt the spread of AIDS, "anyone caught in a homosexual act [should be] summarily executed." Think about that for a minute. A student group at Harvard has sponsored a speaker who called for the extermination of gay people. This is made no less chilling by the fact that Cameron is a crackpot, thrown out of professional organizations by psychologists and sociologists. Even if he is a charlatan, where were the sponsors of the event? Did they stand up and dissociate themselves from his statements? Does the Conservative Club believe that killing gay people is something...
...fiscal 1985, and that percentage is likely to grow rapidly. Nonetheless, says Leslie Wells, an assistant to the company's president, "we're not putting all our eggs in the SDI basket. It's not something that's going to cause the company to come to a screeching halt if it's discontinued...