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...main reason for the growth of the movement is increasing concern that political leaders of both superpowers???especially since the shelving of the SALT II treaty in 1980 and the failure to resume talks since then?have moved, with mutual belligerence, toward a direct confrontation that could trigger a nuclear war. Those worries were, in a sense, symbolized by a rhetorical exchange between Ronald Reagan and Leonid Brezhnev last week that probably did more to augment superpower tensions than to ease them. Speaking to the 17th Congress of Soviet Trade Unions, the medal-bedecked Soviet leader announced that Moscow...
Here was the Watergate tragedy encapsuled in a brief telephone conversation. We were heading into what could have become the gravest foreign policy crisis of the Nixon presidency?because it involved a direct confrontation of the superpowers???with a President overwhelmed by his difficulties and with a Congress that had just, in the War Powers Act, restricted authority to use military force...
...powerful nations?often sentimentalized as truly "peace-loving" in contrast to the superpowers???have acted with complete lack of responsibility, being constantly at each other's throats in various nationalistic, tribal or racial quarrels...
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