Word: russia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...current stalemate in American-Soviet relations as symptomatic of a graver failing. As the moderate Sen. Charles Mathias (R-Md) wrote in Foreign Affairs last June, the real danger in American-Soviet relations is simple: they focus only on arms, a subject on which the United States and Russia clearly have trouble agreeing. During the Reagan Administration that myopia has in fact increased, where once our negotiations with the Soviets included culture and trade, they have now been divided into several types of arms talks entirely bereft of other forms of interchange...
Nearly all the cultural and trade exchanges between Russia and the United States, except for our grain deal and normal diplomatic procedures, are now entirely suspended. And arms reduction talks are now diminishing visibly into politicking because progress has been slow or nonexistent...
Here, it seems is the crux of the problem and the way in which talks between the two Superpowers might be resumed. If the United States and Russia begin talks and realistic relations on the basis of firm alliance rather than on propaganda, then the issue of arms talks, under the larger cover of general wide common concerns, might more easily be resolved...
...continue to support and reap profits from apartheid so that its students can remain concerned about South Africa. Whether or not Harvard divests, students who are sincerely concerned about human rights violations will find time to address them wherever they occur--in South Africa, in Central America, in Soviet Russia--and in the United States, for that matter...
...through the war, and support it to this day? The answer throws valuable light on the entire question of East/West division, and shows why it is impossible to view the world as red on one side and red-white-and-blue on the other. The Communits revolutions in Russia and China were achieved by remarkably well organized, tiny minorities. These violent revolutionaries used the legitimate grievances of oppressed peoples to gain power, which they promptly consolidated and turned against the same people to maintain their power. The same thing happened in Cuba and all over Eastern Europe; internal strifes paved...