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PARIS, April 7--The United States does not want even limited disarmament, and is stalling in the disarmament negotiations. The Soviet Union does want a limited disarmament agreement, and has made significant compromises in an effort to obtain one. This is the opinion of a top NATO scientist here, involved in developed armament systems for the U.S. and the allies...
...scientist defends what he believes the United States to be doing at the disarmament conference in Geneva as a useful and effective maneuver in the cold war. "We can afford the luxury of spending the top ten per cent of our Gross National Product on armaments," he said. "The Soviet Union can't do this and increase consumer services at the same time. It just isn't rich enough...
...have succeeded in spending so much money on nuclear gadgetry that we have put the Soviet Union under real economic strain," the scientist said. "They have always been convinced that the future belongs to them, and they have become convinced--at least those in power have become convinced--that the way to win the future is not through the arms race. It is therefore no longer profitable for them to continue the arms race. They would like to keep a limited nuclear force and pursue the struggle in the politico-economic realm...
...reduce chaos to disorder." Now he is retiring in favor of James A. Perkins, vice president of the philanthropic Carnegie Corporation of New York. At 51, Perkins took the job partly because "I was ready for a large, tough proposition." He got it. Says Cornell's noted Political Scientist Clinton Rossiter: "This is the most unmanageable, undirectable university in the country...
...only other first-class passenger was an elderly Russian scientist of distinguished mien who was apparently so highly classified that he never exchanged a syllable with anyone during the trip. The first-class seat directly across from mine was partly filled with a bulky shape that I later learned-to my great discomfiture -was an extra fuel tank...