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...limits," charged Bundestag Member Freimut Duve, a member of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. "Lech Walesa should have recognized them long ago." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stated that martial law "isn't bad" if it prevents civil war. George Kennan, a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, suggested that Poland's latest tragedy might have been avoided if only Solidarity had been content "to rest for a while on its laurels" instead of pushing the "semiparalyzed Communist government" to the wall...
...U.S.S.R. produces so many guns at the expense of so much butter is a matter of heated debate. The dean of American Kremlin-watchers, George Kennan, attributes the Soviet accumulation of military firepower to a deep-seated insecurity "flowing from Russia's relative weakness and vulnerability." Richard Pipes, the hard-line anti-Soviet historian from Harvard who now serves as a specialist on Communist affairs for the National Security Council staff, stresses offensive over the defensive drives. "Militarism," he says, "is as central to Soviet Communism as the pursuit of profit is to capitalist societies," and this militarism...
...While Kennan advocates detente and Pipes favors a more confrontational policy, their views on the motivation of Soviet militarism are not entirely incompatible. Both would agree that the U.S.S.R. is the world's ultimate national security state...
Harvard's committee currently publishes a list of courses relating to women's issues and tries to create new courses within the existing departments, Kennan said, adding, "We want to integrate the study of women's issues throughout the Harvard curriculum...
...through Washington last week people were recalling the age of Roosevelt, Acheson, Truman, Lovett, Forrestal, Kennan, Vandenberg, Eisenhower, Dulles and many more. It was a time when men and women moved in and out of Government, preserving and nurturing an attitude about U.S. participation in international affairs. More often than not they buried partisan feelings, consulted closely and hammered out lasting compromises that were clearly in the national interest. They assumed their responsibility principally out of a sense of obligation, and then because they enjoyed the work...