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Inevitably, arms exports are an instrument of foreign policy. In the years immediately following World War II, arms-exporting states carefully weighed ?and often rejected???offers from foreign customers. The U.S. has exported weapons in order to bolster anti-Communist regimes; a congressional act of 1951 explicitly forbade sales to neutral nations and insisted that purchasing countries contribute to "the defensive strength of the free world." To the Soviets, arms sales to the Middle East have been a means of challenging Western influence. By transferring arms to India, the Russians sought to create a regional counterforce to Peking...
...Tillman Merritt, theory with Walter Piston?but he spread his interests straight across the academic boards, and laid down a strong foundation of culture to support his musical taste. He also found time to play the piano for silent movies at the student film club, tried out?but was rejected???for the job of second Glee Club accompanist (years later Bernstein, who never forgets, came to Harvard to conduct the Glee Club; during rehearsal he turned to one of the two pianists and said: "You have the job I wasn't good enough...
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