Word: safran
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...survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard Professor of Government Nadav Safran. Kissinger's remarks only repeated what he had said before on a "background" basis. They also were consistent with his earlier statements about the doomsday prospect facing the industrialized democracies of the West because of "economic strangulation"-that is, national bankruptcies and the possible collapse of representative government...
Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, and Nadav Safran, professor of Government, both warned last night that if a settlement is not reached in the Middle East in the near future, all of the accomplishments of the "shuttle diplomacy" of Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger '50 will be lost...
Hoffmann and Safran, along with Steven D. Krasner, assistant professor of Government, participated in a symposium on American policy in the Mid-East before an audience of 150 in Burr Lecture Hall...
...Safran said that American policy in the Middle East has focused on side issues to divert attention from its inability to achieve a permanent settlement...
...Both Safran and Hoffmann praised Kissinger's success at achieving the disengagement of Arab and Israeli forces after the October War. "The disengagement in Egypt and Syria averted a certain resumption of the war," Safran said...