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...stormy response from the Kremlin seemed bound to strike an unjustifiably apocalyptic chord among Americans as they digested the fictional consequences of a nuclear holocaust in ABC-TV's The Day After (see NATION).* For his part, President Reagan replied from his Santa Barbara ranch on Thanksgiving Day that "we can only be dismayed," adding that the Andropov declaration was "at sharp variance with the stated wish of the Soviet Union that an [INF] agreement be negotiated...
Indeed, the program was finally a potent and sophisticated civics lesson. Says Pipes: "It is very good for the world, including the Soviets, to know how crisis management works." Adds Lord: "It is important to understand that there are many choices between nuclear holocaust and abject surrender."World war will not start spontaneously, nor will it be avoided by chance. Real men and women, most of them anything but reckless, control the superpowers. Yet the program also made clear the unnerving flipside: for all their academic degrees and years of Government experience, the mock NSC facing the ersatz crisis showed...
...maybe we've finished once and for all with that crap about the Jewish monopoly on morality, about the moral lesson of the Holocaust and the persecutions, about the Jews, who were supposed to have emerged from the gas chambers pure and good...
...looking for a few John Reeds (Class of '10) who fight imperialist war by fighting the capitalist system that breeds war. John us in the fight for a socialist future--now--before the Harvard-trained war criminals in power engulf all of our futures in a nuclear holocaust. Tom Crean '86 Spartacus Youth League
...REAL DANGER with the discipline rationals is that discipline will become the rights-buster that national security often is. If administrators must maintain some amorphous discipline or national security "posture" to prevent spaced out students from rioting or nuclear holocaust, then what right, what protections, exist? In this case, only a rumor and an anonymous phone call transformed a U.S. constitutional right into a Soviet style promise, redeemable only in a world of lofty words and glorifies lies...