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...insular nation, we have come instinctively to define strategic weapons to mean weapons capable of inflicting harm on one's homeland; and just as instinctively, we have attributed this definition to the Russians. As a matter of fact, however, except when it suits them for purposes of negotiating certain arms limitations with us (as, for instance, in the case of the Backfire bomber), the Russians have not adopted this definition at all. Their criterion for determining what constitutes strategic weapons is not geographic but functional: a strategic weapon to them is one which, regardless of its range, can attain immediate...
Several senators, including Daniel P. Moynihan (D-N.Y.), have proposed making it a crime for officials to disclose the names of intelligence agents or for private persons, including journalists, to do so with intent to harm intelligence activities. Senate sources say there is even support for explicitly permitting agents to burglarize Americans' homes or to open their mail if they are suspected to have "positive intelligence" about foreign governments...
...England Journal of Medicine, William J. Curran, 52, professor of legal medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Ward Casscells, 28, a resident at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, maintain that death by injection, however carried out, violates the Hippocratic oath, by which all doctors vow never to harm their patients willfully. In fact, the oath specifically forbids using or suggesting the use of poisons. The policy adopted by Oklahoma tries to avoid any conflict with medical ethics by requiring "trained medical employees" to insert a drug-carrying catheter and inject the lethal substance. But does that relieve doctors...
...making deals with the Soviets. Now is a tune not for disarmament, but for rearmament. There is in this feeling a new manifestation of an old fallacy, the fallacy that SALT does the U.S.S.R. more good than the U.S., and that scuttling SALT will therefore do the Soviets more harm. As Henry Kissinger often said, SALT is not a reward for Soviet good behavior; treaties between adversaries can be more useful than treaties between friends; especially in periods of heightened tension between adversaries, treaties can be vital in setting bounds for competition. Kissinger's rival and successor, Zbigniew Brzezinski...
Obviously, candidates should not make specific statements about the Tehran Embassy crisis that could endager hostages' lives or imperil secret negotiations that might be underway. But after three months of crisis, the danger of harm to the hostages is less than the danger of artificial repression of the political dialogue in an election year...