Word: leade
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Perpetual Peace,' the philosopher Immanuel Kant wrote that world peace would come about in one of two ways: after a cycle of wars of ever increasing violence, or by an act of moral insight in which the nations of the world renounced the bitter competition bound to lead to self-destruction. Our age faces precisely that choice...
...Soviet Union to avoid. But the Soviet Union can avoid exacerbating conflicts that may arise even if it did not cause them. That means they should not dispatch proxy forces, not encourage coups and create a general climate of insecurity, not sign friendship treaties under conditions that will lead to military operations. That burden we must assume, too, in any rational pattern of coexistence...
...Because we would immediately be accused of provocative conduct involving a high risk of war. If we started engaging in the sort of activities in Eastern Europe that the Soviets have engaged in in Africa, first it would lead to bloody repression, and second we would be accused of fomenting the risk...
Even in the handful of months since its conception, Hackett's book has become laughably dated. The military details of tank strengths and armor-piercing capabilities Hackett keeps under rigid command and control, but the basic premises that lead him to conclude a European land war is conceivable fall out of his influence even as he tries to marshal them...
...Eskimo, grew up in northwest Alaska living as a nomad. After catching the attention of teachers in the town of Kotzebue, he boldly set out for the nation's capital, where he got a degree in political science from George Washington University. In 1966 Hensley returned to Alaska to lead the struggle for native rights. As a state legislator, he flew to Washington more than 100 times to help keep the land claims issue before Congress. In 1971 Congress passed the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act that gave Eskimos, Indians and Aleuts nearly $1 billion and 40 million acres...