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...praising the Soviet willingness to focus on warheads "as a sign of progress," the State Department said that the U.S. would stand by its commitment to exclude British and French nuclear forces from the Geneva negotiations. U.S. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger went so far as to suggest that the tactic might be designed to bring the INF talks "to a halt...
President Reagan did not respond to the scientists' petition, and Administration officials had no comment on Andropov's letter. But a senior Western diplomat in Moscow said that the Soviet tactic of appealing to Western public opinion through individual letters undermined serious arms negotiations. "Propaganda is being turned out more quickly and more cleverly under Andropov," he said. "They are using this technique not to talk seriously about vital questions, but to build a worldwide campaign against the Reagan Administration...
...dissident, Vladimir Bukovsky, who had been charged with organizing a demonstration in Moscow's Pushkin Square. Kaminskaya boldly pleaded for acquittal, partly on the ground that Bukovsky had the right to demonstrate under the Soviet constitution. The legal community was shocked that she had invoked the constitution-a tactic that is taboo in political cases. In practice, the basic civil rights guaranteed by the constitution have proved to be mere window dressing in a totalitarian society...
...initiating a protest tactic which is centuries old but entirely new to the Harvard community, the fasters not only reinforce the pressure for divestment on the Corporation but emphasize the seriousness of their moral commitment and invite the Corporation (and the rest of us) to do the same. Hopefully, President Bok and the Fellows of the University will not sit in stubborn silence and watch the opportunity pass by. To quote one group of tenured professors who have thrown their support behind the fasters. "We will forever be ashamed of a Harvard that defines its self-interest so callosly that...
...political tactic the fast is neither well studied nor fully understood. There are some things we do know about it, however. First, a political fast represents a unique and courageous assumption by an individual of the price of political activism, a kind of paring down of obligation from the wider membership of an organization to the single person, creating a situation where, so to speak, "the-buck-stops-at-me." As such the political fast is an awesome burden--one that runs the risk of grievous if not ultimate injury to the fasting individual. It is precisely this heavy burden...