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Conceptual Breakthrough. With Brezhnev very much in control in Moscow, the Russians undoubtedly know what they want to say; but there is some evidence that they do not want to hurry on SALT either, perhaps because they fear that a new agreement would prevent them from catching up with the U.S. qualitatively. When Kissinger was in Moscow in March, optimistically predicting a "conceptual breakthrough" on arms control, he was not able, significantly, to get appointments with top Russian SALT negotiators or Defense Minister Andrei Grechko...
...tente failed to prevent the October war, it did help in achieving
...same time that the Soviet leaders have been pursuing détente internationally, they have embarked on an intensified program to prevent the thaw from reaching their own people. Ever since the Brezhnev-Nixon meetings began in Moscow two years ago, Soviet officials have conducted a massive "vigilance" campaign to warn ordinary citizens of the danger of closer contacts with the West. Nationwide indoctrination courses and a spate of books, pamphlets, newspaper articles and television shows have all been designed to dampen Russian hopes that détente abroad might portend an easing of the cold war at home...
...Americans have been hearing a somber new slogan: "Death with dignity." Meaning: the American way of death has become too technological, often condemning a patient to a lingering and painful end in which he is kept artificially alive by a maze of tubes and life-support machines. To prevent such dehumanizing procedures, the advocates of death with dignity recommend that doctors be allowed to cease extraordinary lifesaving efforts when it is clear that the patient is beyond further help. The living are counseled to ease the dying person's final agony by keeping him company during his last hours...
...Romans in supporting the traditional Christian view that death entered the world as "the wages of sin" -the punishment for Adam's fall.* Ever since, Ramsey insists, death has been "the enemy." Jesus' death on the cross redeemed man for immortality, but did nothing to prevent death from being a shattering separation of soul and body. Christians, argues Ramsey, thus properly dread death, and in their care for the sick wisely laid the foundations of Western medicine. Nowadays, Ramsey says, "true humanism" still depends on a "dread of death." Romantically investing death with a bogus dignity, he suggests...