Word: ussr
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Strings and Things: Harvard Coach Bill Cleary is now 4-10 against Minnesota schools....Wednesday's victory stretched Harvard's unbeaten streak over Brown to 10 straight....Over Christmas break, Harvard plays the Spartak Team, one the USSR's top national squads. Spartak has been touring U.S. colleges for the past two weeks....Chris Biotti and Ed Krayer will take time off from the Harvard squad to play with the U.S. junior national team, and won't return to the Crimson until mid-January...UMD has "Power-Play" jackpot contest for the team's fans. As in professional baseball teams...
...mock Soviet trial closed the day of discussion on such issues as the diversity of dissidents in the USSR and the means of legal advocacy used to address Soviet human rights violations...
When Gennady's mother died in Israel in 1983, the Moscow Office of Registration refused to issue a temporary visa to allow him to attend the funeral on the grounds that this would be "contradicting the interests of the USSR...
...dark ages of the Cold War when Presidents Roosevelt, Truman and Eisenhower used or considered using nuclear weapons to decimate portions of the world population. In other words, threats by irrational dictators or other third parties could easily overwhelm a treaty between the U.S. and the USSR, returning the two nations to the frightening doctrine of Mutually Assured Destruction...
Third, if the U.S. or the USSR were to violate the agreement after 10 years had passed and nuclear weapons were eliminated--and the USSR in particular has a dismal record of adherence to arms treaties--the non-violator would have no way of resisting the violator other than breaking the agreement on its own. Complete elimination of nuclear weapons would, therefore, by current standards, be entirely unenforceable and would rely solely on trust and goodwill between the superpowers. Here comes the Chamberlain lesson again...