Word: schemes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Evil. In 1960 diplomats had haggled fruitlessly for months over the two opposing disarmament schemes put forth by the West and by Russia. The Russians then, as now, offered a glittering but empty scheme for total abolition of all armies and weapons over a four-year period. The West also had a step-by-step program for armament cuts, but there was one big difference. The U.S. insisted on careful, on-the-spot verification to ensure that all countries 1) destroyed the arms they said they would destroy, and 2) did not replace them with other weapons manufactured secretly. Crying...
Both sides should further consider a scheme wherein if either feels its security dependent on a resumption of atmospheric testing, this is permissible with international monitoring. Information going to both sides will widen no gaps, and thus the logical requirements of stabilized deterrence will not be violated...
...divide the way in which public officials and students have thought about the U.N. into some six polemical schools, and since the Yale Political is almost exclusively a polemical magazine, it is surely not unfair to do it here. The scheme works like this...
...from Harvard was sponsored by "Tocsin," an undergraduate organization committed to the idea of "unilateral initiatives" by the U.S. in furthering the drive for peace. While Tocsin has a large membership, there are surely as many of us, although not so well organized, who are violently opposed to this scheme. We are not against peace-but we cannot support a program that also must entail compromise...
...Germans would accept such a scheme, which is far closer to the old spirit of Rapallo than to the New Nationalism. But the Berlin stalemate tends to stifle West Germany's spirit, restricts its activities in other fields; the resulting irritation forces many to the conclusion that something must be done, though no one knows quite what. The fact that the West Germans are even considering "direct" talks with Russia reflects a significant psychological shift. It will require some getting used to by West Germany's allies, but it is not necessarily dangerous to Western unity. As TIME...