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...mistake, says Harvard Political Scientist Henry Kissinger, to think of peace as some final state of nirvana that beckons seductively somewhere around the bend. "We have to get rid of the idea that there is some terminal date," he says, "after which we live with a consciousness of harmony." In fact, Moscow and Washington seem to have come to much the same conclusion. "The Russians," notes an American delegate to the 18-nation Geneva disarmament conference, "can be bitchy about Berlin or Czechoslovakia while at the same time wanting to move ahead on disarmament." The U.S., he might have added...
...next President. "You can say they are doing it to prevent Nixon from being elected," declares Columbia Sovietologist Zbigniew Brzezinski, a Humphrey adviser. "And you can say they are doing it because they think that if he's elected, tensions will increase." "They are concerned," adds Yale Political Scientist Frederick Barghoorn, "about creating pressure against anyone who is for a hard-line American policy. If they could swing a couple hundred thousand votes against Nixon, they would do it." Other Kremlinologists doubt, however, that the Russians would base their policy on so uncertain a premise...
...ordered last week to investigate charges that Paterson police used unnecessary force in quelling recent disturbances in Puerto Rican neighborhoods. Without question, New York City police used extreme, sometimes brutal tactics against students during spring demonstrations at Columbia University. "As far as police practice is concerned," says Stanford Social Scientist Richard Blum, "the U.S. has to be considered an un derdeveloped country...
...home, the Kremlin is having its own persistent problems with Russia's dissident intellectuals, who continue to badger the regime to relax its tight control on free expression. Last week the latest and most daring demand for reform came from a prominent Soviet nuclear scientist, whose 10,000-word essay -entitled "Thoughts About Progress, Peaceful Coexistence and Intellectual Freedom"-is being clandestinely circulated among a small circle of Russian writers, scientists and artists. In it, Andrei Sakharov, 47, demands nothing less in Communist Russia than an entirely free society enjoying complete intellectual liberty...
...When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, is almost certainly right. When he States that something is impossible, he 'is very probably wrong...