Word: mutually
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...avoid all of this A growth in the numbers of launchers (i.e. targets) without an increase in the number of warheads would deter the Soviets by increasing their uncertainty of first strike success. And it would leave them free to pursue a similar policy, making the deterrence mutual...
...forgetting the painful lessons of the recession. Lenders are once again making longterm, fixed-rate mortgages, for example, to take advantage of the spread between the relatively high interest rates on mortgages and the lower interest that depositors get. Says Saul B. Klaman, president of the National Association of Mutual Savings Banks: "A policy of making and holding such loans in volume amounts to playing Russian roulette with interest rates and the future of the institution...
Moscow-Tehran relations have, in fact, long been characterized by mutual and mistrustful exploitation. The Soviets were far from enthusiastic in their support for Khomeini in the months just before his 1979 overthrow of the Shah. The reason, as a Tudeh member now in jail puts it, was that "Moscow perceived the clergy as incorrigible reactionaries." Those fears were well founded. Right-wing clergymen routinely reviled the Soviets as godless Communists, while Khomeini opposed the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. But Moscow wooed Tehran by offering assistance against the nettlesome Mujahedin guerrillas. In response, the mullahs invited KGB agents to Iran...
...third draft of the pastoral letter, "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response," was written by a five-member committee headed by Bernardin. The first and second drafts had given grudging acceptance to the concept of nuclear deterrence, if the U.S. worked for mutual disarmament with the Soviets. In its most controversial passage, the second draft also called for a "halt" in the deployment and development of U.S. and Soviet nuclear weapons; that stance was rejected by conservative bishops and criticized by the Administration because it amounted to an endorsement of a nuclear freeze that would...
...work for mutual nuclear disarmament, the U.S., paradoxically, must operate from nuclear strength. Although they supported the policy of deterrence, which ultimately depends for its credibility on the will of the U.S. to use nuclear weapons if attacked, the bishops doubted that any use of nuclear arms by the U.S. would be moral. Catholic Philosopher Michael Novak, a leading conservative critic of the pastoral letter, argues that the U.S. must be ready to use its nuclear arsenal, if need be, "to prevent the most awful aggression against innocent peoples here and elsewhere." In addition, the bishops' proposal that...