Word: ought
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...NEXT STAGE of town-gown cooperation we ought to seek and use a new mechanism which would allow more of Harvard's creative problem-solving ability to focus on Cambridge...
...surprisingly, I would advocate one of Harvard's favorite devices to get started. There ought to be a town-gown committee composed of interested Harvard faculty, key school and city personnel and other community members who could contribute. This committee would catalogue past successes and current municipal needs, develop a list of priority programs to be worked on and seek out prospective University staff with the skills and talent to help...
...they understand to be the terms of the ABM treaty. They fear that if the Americans move SDI beyond the limits of the treaty, the U.S. would have a strategic advantage that would give us a first- strike capability. This is not, however, the President's intention. So we ought to be able to find some formula that would permit us to probe the technological potential of SDI while at the same time removing the Soviet fears that we are moving toward first- strike capability...
...final analysis, the Soviets proved that they're not interested in fair and equitable reductions. They're interested only in killing SDI. But SDI is not a bargaining chip. It shouldn't be. I don't believe the Soviets are serious about reducing their nuclear arsenal. We ought to get as heavy a cut in offensive forces as possible. That doesn't preclude us from defending ourselves...
That loudspeaker will amplify his thoughts on a range of issues, including the nuclear arms race. Reagan and Gorbachev ought to meet for a summit in Hiroshima, he suggests: "That would be a poetic way of dealing with politics." Uppermost, however, is Wiesel's role as a witness to the century's central catastrophe. "I'm afraid that the horror of that period is so dark, people are incapable of understanding, incapable of listening," he says. The Nobel Prize is a sign, perhaps, that people are at least trying to comprehend...