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...direct answer to this question is that there is no answer, that in fact we are watching the answer unfold. Sometimes Harvard groups and Harvard itself claim the mantle of "universityhood" to legitimize, even to shield, an action or a stand. Sometimes Harvard groups or individuals feel forced to justify an action with non-political reasoning ("he's unworthy," "it's a moral stand"). Sometimes blatantly political terms are used to justify action. But no one, except possibly Derek Bok, has seriously tried to untangle this massive web of conflicting arguments...
...maintain a monopoly. (Soviet Leader Mikhail) Gorbachev said almost as much in Paris. He said we have quite enough arms competition on the ground, and we do not want to have it in space. The President is aware that it could be destabilizing if you give one side a shield that the other could not penetrate, and therefore that side would be safe to launch a war behind it. He has said that if we find that we can do this, before we deploy we would share it with the world. What kind of world would...
...Capitol Hill there is some sentiment for limiting SDI appropriations. That lingering skepticism found new support last week in a study published by the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. The 325-page report on missile defenses concluded that SDI would not produce an effective shield for U.S. population centers. While Star Wars weaponry could protect missile sites to a considerable extent, actual deployment on both sides, unless governed by a Soviet-American treaty, might increase the temptation of one nation to strike first. "There is great uncertainty," the analysts said, "about the strategic situation that would arise...
...expensive. The Administration calls the program the Strategic Defense Initiative, the press has dubbed it Star Wars, and the hundreds of companies and universities competing to work on the project could easily rename it Star Bucks. Experts estimate that fulfilling President Reagan's vision of building an impregnable defensive shield against nuclear attack, if it is possible at all, could ultimately cost anywhere from $400 billion to $1.2 trillion. It would thus become the biggest bonanza ever for American businesses and educational institutions...
...rise in product-liability lawsuits, notably in the case of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device, has resulted in ballooning insurance rates for manufacturers. And Union Carbide's Bhopal disaster, which prompted more than $100 billion in lawsuits, has helped make toxic-pollution insurance virtually impossible for most chemical companies to obtain...