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Indeed, while the officials responsible for U.S. planning often see Soviet influence and Soviet gains in all corners of the world, there is evidence for thinking that Soviet planners see?or profess to see ?just the opposite: a threatening NATO to the west, a threatening China to the east, a less friendly India to the south, mishaps and reverses everywhere. It is this real or feigned element of paranoia in Soviet policy that makes the current prospects confronting Washington so tricky. Even though one of the purposes of Carter's China move may well have been to gain some...
...problem thus reduces to finding a way of bringing students together--not, as student government would do, on the basis of elected students who profess a nondescript interest in "governance"--but on the basis of interest in a more narrow issue or area. In the past, no such mechanism has existed at Harvard...
...emerging pattern exasperates Moscow. Among other things, the Soviets profess astonishment that the West is willing to sell weapons to an unreliable China that still speaks of the inevitability of war. At the same time, the Russians seem willing enough to accept the normalization of relations between the U.S. and China, so long as the new friendship does not produce a tacit anti-Soviet alliance. Warns Georgi Arbatov, a Soviet expert on U.S. policy: "You cannot reconcile detente with attempts to make China some sort of military ally of NATO." A Western diplomat also cautioned: "I wonder if an economically...
Some of Begin's own colleagues profess surprise at the degree of the Administration's disappointment over the stalled talks. Amazingly, some Israeli officials now say privately that if Washington had made it clear to the two sides how important the Dec. 17 deadline had been to Carter, a treaty agreement might have been reached on schedule. Nothing could illustrate more clearly the character of the present impasse than that fundamental misperception...
IATA spokesmen profess to believe that no orgy of price cutting is ahead, insisting that fares are "at rock bottom now," at least over the North Atlantic; they also maintain that the airlines will not be going "hog wild" in the service area. Yet there are already some welcome signs of movement in this direction. The quality of meals in coach may benefit from competitive pressure. Indeed, Air France has begun giving economy passengers a choice of two main courses plus fruit, cheese and wine, as well as free use of movie earphones...