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These actions have shaken the Atlantic Alliance and stirred anew the long-running debate on whether trade sanctions are wise or even effective. Outspoken criticism of the President's policy comes not only from Europeans but also from many American foreign affairs experts. Said George Kennan, former American Ambassador to the Soviet Union, in a speech in Frankfurt last week: "We must immediately and completely stop every type of economic warfare. The attempt to prevent or set back the entire economic development of another people has no place in the politics of a democratic state in times of peace...
...Bundy-Kennan-Smith-McNamara foreign affairs quartet, on the other hand, called for a renunciation of first use (after a buildup of conventional and second-strike retalitory forces) on the grounds that any nuclear conflict is likely to escalate and thus "involve unacceptable risks to the national life that military forces exist to defend." The Reagan Administration, as well as some West Europeans under the American nuclear "umbrella," strongly oppose any non-first-use declaration because it would allegedly lower the perceived risks to an aggressor contemplating attack. The problem is that declaration or no declaration, a no-first...
...four former architects of U.S. foreign policy sat together at a crowded press conference in Washington Last week. Spokesman for the group was Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968. Flanking him were McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser to John Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson; George F. Kennan, former Ambassador to the Soviet Union and the grand old man of U.S. diplomacy; and Gerard Smith, chief negotiator of SALT...
Edward I. Kennan '57 deen of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the interdisciplinary committee on women's studies said yesterday that ap- proval of the Latin American an Studies certificate would not prompt the committee he chairs to seek similar accreditation...
...Barnard's $25 million endowment can support its program. The college emphasizes strong teaching and has a largely female faculty who can serve as role models for students. The policy works: Barnard has seen its pool of applicants increase by 51% in the past four years. Says Elizabeth Kennan, president of Mount Holyoke, another top women's college: "Barnard should not fear competition from a coed Columbia. There is an intense interest among young women today for women's colleges that will put Barnard in a strong position...