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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President emphatically rejects the notion that progress on arms control might be "linked" to human rights. This breaks
...sharply from Kissinger's strategy of dealing with the Soviets; he held that all U.S.-U.S.S.R. ties were interwoven, meaning that progress on one front, like SALT, would lead eventually to advances in other areas like human rights. Vowing to continue speaking out on human rights, Carter nonetheless has repeatedly assured Moscow that he has no "inclination to single out the Soviet Union as the only place where human rights are being abridged," and that he is "not trying to overthrow the Soviet government nor to intrude ourselves into their affairs." But the Kremlin keeps on fuming...
With the shifting foreign policy priorities, Brzezinski envisions "a progression toward a better condition of man kind, a condition in which man is more aware of his fundamental rights, more capable of asserting them, a condition in which social and political systems will be more responsive to those rights." The Administration's championing of hu man rights policy reflects this view. For the first time in history, Brzezinski insists, all the world's peoples have become politically active and must be listened to. "Human rights is in the air," he says, and the U.S. is "the dynam...
...current wave of criticism comes at a time when the bar should, in theory, be more amenable to progress and new ideas than ever before. Nearly half the 218,000 A.B.A. members are now under 36 years old, and recent meetings have approved such once scandalous proposals as the decriminalization of marijuana possession. Says John Douglas, past president of the District of Columbia Bar: "There's more reform now, but it still isn't coming fast enough...
...jitters could point to some cloudy economic news. The index of leading indicators, a widely watched barometer of future trends in the economy, dipped down slightly in June, casting some doubt on the durability of the present brisk expansion. Investors have also been puzzled by the slow progress of the Carter tax and energy programs in Congress; they have been concerned about the growing U.S. trade deficit and fretful that a big increase in the money sup ply in recent weeks might prompt the Federal Reserve Board to tighten credit and thus trigger a rise in interest rates. Another drag...