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...city to declare one of its buildings unsafe because it did not meet earthquake standards. Then its attorneys argued that the company wanted to remove the Garden Court because "the longer the building stays up, the riskier it is that somebody might get hurt." Replied an unconvinced Superior Court Judge Robert I. Weil: "Well, my God, there are 500 buildings in downtown Los Angeles that are subject to the same ordinance, and nobody is making them take those buildings down. So why should this one be any different...
...Watergate sounds as if he were discussing an odd tribal custom: "That's true. The Americans take democracy very seriously " Many Europeans admired Richard Nixon as a statesman the last strong American President in the field of foreign policy. To them, Watergate was a profligate waste of superior leadership. It weakened America's force in the world...
Sherwin: Yes, it has a meaning, and the meaning is tied to the point that I was making--it's called nuclear diplomacy, atomic diplomacy, or nuclear blackmail, that sort of thing. The fear is that the side with more, with a superiority, will be willing to threaten more. It's a vague, general perception that has specificity, that is in a sense contrary to theory and in a sense beyond the bounds of history....It's a problem in cultural anthropology, and we don't want the Soviets to be superior...
...major competitive relationship in international politics....So it may be that now that the Soviet Union has eliminated many of the numerical interiorities it faced previously and we're in a situation of ambiguity....There are still some areas in which the United States is superior, but I think in most measures of nuclear strength, I would argue that it is quite clear that the trends are adverse to the United States...
...policy of detente, combined with the necessary will to defend ourselves, is not one of fear and defeatism. It is a policy based on the conviction that our system and our values are superior. Neither is détente a capitulation vis-à-vis the Soviet Union. It is, on the contrary, an active policy contributing to greater independence for the Eastern European countries. Striking the right balance between the double objective of the alliance-defense and détente-is necessary. It is also indispensable to secure a firm commitment to NATO from our own peoples...