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...Strobe Talbott takes the position that we do not have the ability to create and perfect a Star Wars system. This view does not recognize America's ability to bring about technological marvels. Talbott himself points out a reason for expanding our research into areas that would render nuclear weapons useless. He says the Soviets "have been experimenting vigorously" in the same area. Can we afford to wait and see if their system works...
...physicians and all of those who deal with ill people must be sensitive to their needs and their desire to know and understand their own problems, and to be aware that as a physician one must know and understand the ethics of our society and be called upon to render ethical opinions. This, too, is an area of knowledge that must be (supplied and) reemphasized in the process of teaching people to become physicians...
...longer is it sufficient that we have computers which can replace a horde of mathematicians in both speed and accuracy, or robots which render human laborers "impediments" to progress. The "new generation of supercomputers," as they have been dubbed, will make even the supercomputer which solved the sixty-nine digit puzzle look like a pocket calculator...
...such a demand and Walesa remains in prison and the reforms do not occur? The President had already sent a strongly worded letter to Brezhnev over the hot line. Jeane Kirkpatrick, not unnaturally, wished to take the Polish question into the United Nations. I urged the President not to render Western action subject to a Soviet veto in the Security Council, and he accepted my advice. Sanctions against the Soviet Union and the Jaruzelski government, even a total embargo by the West, were discussed. "If Defense has its way," I told my staff, "we'll have...
...slip of paper, marking a place where he had found something of interest. That is how Nixon had spent his last night as President. He had been seeking solace from the only men who could truly know what he was feeling?his kinsmen in history. I simply could not render personal judgment on Nixon after seeing what he had gone through...