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...Washington's statements. Do they make Moscow more lenient? No, but they make it more difficult for the Soviets to bash Sakharov or send everyone to Siberia." On the other hand, it is difficult to link foreign policy and morality, because the Russians are proud, sensitive, somewhat paranoid and cannot be pushed too far. The diplomat continues: "Is it not immoral to jettison disarmament?" This is not likely to happen. Carter seems determined not to let human rights protests interfere with arms control; for its part, Moscow seems to want progress on SALT, and needs trade and technology from...
...approach has been attacked as reflecting a static view of the world that overemphasized superpower relationships and squandered American assets without deriving strategic benefits. New York Times Columnist Anthony Lewis has accused him of conducting foreign policy with "cynical brutality." Kissinger shrugs off attacks with a quip: "Even a paranoid can have enemies." Some of them, apparently, are real enough. Members of a right-wing extremist group in Israel are said to have put up $150,000 for his assassination...
...parties. His wispy, graying locks go uncombed, his custom-made Savile Row suits look as if they had been bought at a manufacturer's fire sale-they do not disguise his paunch. He is variously described by associates and acquaintances as autocratic, devious, dishonest, rapacious, egotistical, power mad, paranoid, a bully and a boor. Almost in the same breath, the same people call Felker a genius. "He's always been tough, restless and driven," says George A. Hirsch, now publisher of New Times, who quit as publisher of New York after four years of corporate karate with Clay...
...more paranoid terms: they've learned how to kill and they don't want to stop. Whether it is Rhodesia, Angola or Lebanon, they want someone to pay them and point them. The bizarre rock star David Bowie put words in their mouths in a frightening ditty in 1972: "It seems the peacefuls stopped the war/Left generals squashed and stifled/But I'll slip about again tonight/'Cause they haven't taken back my rifle...
...active, and the greater variety of personality types have already set us on a par with the rest of the College. However, this continued attempt to make us totally indistinguishable (and hence indiscernable) from Adams House, for instance, is making large, happy, quiet communities within the House become smaller, paranoid, and angry. They have felt the university uprooting them entirely, as though they were crabgrass which might contaminate the straight and true Harvard Man; they have seen the absurdity of this picture, and have tried reason, to no avail. The administration is continuing to destroy the remaining shreds of unity...