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...occasion. I will not presume to define all the conditions necessary for violent action to be morally right, but I will lay two minimal requirements. First, the liberty which the protester blocks must be one he or she believes to be wrong: he must be using violence to restrain someone in a way he wishes the law would. When the civil rights movement staged sit-ins, when Blacks rode in the front of segregated busses, the "liberty" attacked was the liberty of bigots to deny dignity and rights to Black people. Do these protesters wish to deny to the Corporation...
Certain themes have cropped up during all eleven meetings. At every summit, the French have pressed to restrain currency fluctuations, and everybody has implored Japan to open its markets to more imports. The essential aim of summits has been to try to coordinate the domestic policies of the world's major industrial nations so that one nation's targets for trade, inflation or growth are not in conflict with another's. This effort has had mixed and occasionally unforeseen results, most notably in Bonn in 1978, when the seven tried to coordinate their growth targets in a "locomotive" strategy...
...Congressional Office of Technology Assessment took an official look into the President's proposal and could barely restrain its bureaucratic laughter: "...the prospect for success of a space-based antimissile system is so remote that it should not serve as the basis of public expectation or national policy." Tom Wicker of the Times noted snidely that soon "people might get the idea the President doesn't know what he's talking about...
Here was a new form of containment, part of what the Atlantic Council of the U.S., a private foreign policy study group, has termed "assertive deterrence." In its ongoing effort to oppose and restrain the Soviet Union, the U.S. must have capabilities offsetting Moscow's at every level, from % small-caliber bullets to multimegaton thermonuclear warheads; the Soviets must not be permitted a monopoly in any significant category of competition, military or paramilitary. To avoid the danger of escalation, the U.S. must have the ability to combat the Soviets and their proxies on their own turf, without resorting to higher...
After the weatherman asked the public to restrain itself, the actual segment about my article ran. It started off with man-on-the-street interviews, as a seemingly endless series of Duluthians blasted me. Then they showed portions of my interview, with which, I must admit, I was pleased...