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...steadfastly refused to address those subjects since they abandoned two sets of arms talks in Geneva last fall. But the Soviets, McFarlane said, then further hardened their position, trying to set "preconditions" for the Vienna negotiations. Among them was an insistence that the U.S. agree in advance to a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite systems. The Soviets already possess such a system; the U.S. does not. According to McFarlane, such prior commitment to a moratorium would in effect "prejudge" the outcome of the talks...
This latest diplomatic crisis began when the Soviet news agency TASS said that Moscow had proposed a joint statement that would commit the superpowers to negotiate on "the prevention of militarization of space." TASS also said the Soviets wanted to introduce a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite weapons and space-based missiles when proposed negotiations are scheduled to begin on Sept. 18 in Vienna. The Administration, however, also wants to look at "offensive" weapons, namely intermediate and intercontinental missiles, and it opposes the suggested moratorium since the U.S. has no operating antisatellite system and the Soviet Union...
Argentina, however, had little choice but to make a deal with the bankers. All the alternatives carried too high a price. One would have called for a 90-day moratorium on Argentina's debts, coupled with promises to meet the country's obligations eventually. That might have made the Alfonsin government more popular with Argentines, who like to see their President standing up to the Yankee banks. But a moratorium would have put Argentina into an even higher risk category for future loans, which would have crippled the country's ability to pay for necessary imports...
...Kremlin has professed a willingness to stop the ASAT race before it begins. Thirteen months ago, the late Yuri Andropov called for an international ban on space weapons, and last August he declared a unilateral moratorium on Soviet launches of antisatellite weapons. While there is good reason to be wary of Soviets bearing disarmament initiatives, there is no reason for refusing to probe them further. Yet the Reagan Administration dismissed Soviet ASAT feelers out of hand. It did so partly because of its shortsighted and amnesiac confidence in the superiority of American high tech, and partly because of its deep...
Various moderate student leaders are now calling for a "moratorium" on the strike. Such a moratorium, regardless of what its proponents say, would amount to calling off the strike entirely. The strike is the only solid asset that students interested in bringing about real changes at Harvard possess, and should not be discarded until those real changes have been...