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...bold nonviolent stroke" to which you refer is about as nonviolent as armed robbery. What if the Egyptian aircraft had refused to comply with U.S. fighter pilots' orders? Robert C. Barker Fort Smith, Ark. Cowboy Style...
Thatcher had sent a private telex to the White House last August invoking Britain's "special relationship" with the U.S. and reminding the President that Britain supported the American defense buildup "in every way." Some observers took this to refer to Britain's endorsement of the Strategic Defense Initiative, which France has refused to back. But the French obviously believe in dollar wars: the Thomson and GTE bid was a whopping $3.1 billion less than Plessey-Rockwell's. SPYING Painful Stalemate...
Along the corridors of Harvard Law School, professors still refer to one another as "colleagues," but the atmosphere of late seems something less than collegial. An intellectual debate has sharpened into a feud about the shape of legal education and the legitimacy of the law itself. On one side stand the adherents of Critical Legal Studies, who charge that the American legal system and its supposedly disinterested rules are prime instruments of social injustice. On the other side are more traditional professors who contend that the faculty "crits" are waging "guerrilla warfare" at the law school. For Dean James Vorenberg...
...refer to the U.N.'s troubled 40th birthday [NATION, Oct. 28], but there is no doubt that the developing nations are greatly helped by the debating forum of the organization. And if by airing their opinions these countries are helped, then so is the world. Some of the U.N.'s agencies, like the World Meteorological Organization, the Universal Postal Union and the World Health Organization, also perform valuable functions. Fielding H. Nalder Rome Powers of Science...
Hope for better relations grew in November 1982, when Yuri Andropov succeeded the deceased Leonid Brezhnev and the U.S. lifted the pipeline sanctions. But on March 8, 1983, Reagan reverted to his earlier themes, castigating the Soviet Union as "an evil empire." Soviet diplomats still refer bitterly to the speech. That same month the President proposed his Star Wars missile defense scheme, which has developed into a major element in U.S. strategic planning and a persistent obstacle to any new arms agreement...