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...humanity itself. Let me say at once that the answer to the arms race is not unilateral nuclear disarmament. The renunciation of nuclear weapons by the West would place the democratic world at the mercy of Soviet Communism. History has proven beyond all argument that mercy is not a salient characteristic of any Communist regime. Neither the arms race nor unilateral disarmament holds out hope. What we must do rather is to revive the art of diplomacy...
...people remember those few things they remember very well. That might be where you were and what you were doing when you first learned about an assassination or it might be when you first walked into your freshmen college dorm. Learning about why these particularly salient memories last over years with very little apparent loss of clarity might suggest more about that transition in general...
...joined the undergraduate Republican Club but left after encountering what he calls "some unbelievably crooked politics for a silly little campus organization." Equally unattractive to Elliott was the small circle which produced the now apparently defunct Salient, a right-wing periodical. "I had a sense of approval that there was some discussion going on, some of it intelligent, says Elliott. "But...they wanted to be snide and defensive and 'intellectual.' "He didn't sign on. "I guess I enjoy politics much more when you feel you're having some sort of impact--not on world events but on whether...
...opposite end of the spectrum, the Salient, a conservative journal in its second year of publication, published eight times this year. The Salient receives funding from the Washington-based Institute for Educational Assistance, a conservative organization founded by William Simon, former Secretary-of the Treasury under Nixon...
...like to see ourselves as the Commentary of the Harvard Community. We are not knee-jerk conservatives," says Lars T. Waldorf '85, the newspaper's managing editor, adding that attacking The Crimson's editorial policy was not the Salient's raison d'etre...