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Your comment that the Soviet Union is currently facing an economic crisis because of its tremendous defense spending should be a warning to President Reagan. If we continue to pour money into our war machine and neglect other problems, especially unemployment, we will find ourselves in the same situation as the Soviets. Michele Liguori-Ram Brockport...
...coup succeeded, and Afghanistan went Communist. But Mr. Brezhnev and his colleagues brushed aside the vitally important warnings that the KGB was giving them-and disaster ensued. At the outset the Politburo felt it now had a chance to make some real headway in Afghanistan. It would pour in money and advisers. Afghanistan's links with the West would be gradually severed. Afghanistan would be not only a neighboring country with whom we had good relations, like Finland, but a new member of the "Communist family...
Just as important, the Soviets stand as much to gain from the pipeline as the West does. They are likely to pour much of the currency revenues from the pipeline right back into Western economies for the purchase of grain and high technology. The pipeline technology itself will help the Soviets produce for themselves Siberian gas they otherwise could not get at for a few years, hence making energy hunting in the Persian gulf less of a necessity...
Perhaps the most surprising Midwestern result was the upset of eleven-term Republican Congressman Paul Findley in Illinois. Findley had advocated U.S. ties to the Palestine Liberation Organization, a stand that brought him campaign contributions from pro-Arab groups-but also provoked Jewish organizations to pour money into the campaign of his Democratic challenger, Springfield Attorney Richard Durbin. The race turned, however, not on Middle East policy but on Reagan's budget cuts...
...Harvard men's soccer team learned last night that it really does pour when it rains, melting under stormy skies to the University of Pennsylvania, 4-0, at historic Franklin Field in Philadelphia...