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...peasants around the world. Fully 70 percent of U.S. Army officers are recruited and trained by ROTC. Today their "adventures" include a Bay of Pigs II against Nicaragua, arming and training the bloody Salvadoran junta, dropping napalm (invented at Harvard) on Cambodia. Tomorrow they hope to annihilate the USSR...
...workout at Blodgett or the ITT before the final course of the day, usually an elective held between 3:30 and 5 p.m. A typical elective is Michael Knacht's "International Relations and Public Policy." In substance, it is similar to an undergraduate government course which studies foreign governments--USSR. Germany. Japan and China--and U.S. policy towards these countries. In formal, there is much more emphasis on discussion, and Knacht knows the names of his students...
James E. Cohen '83, who drafted the letter for the committee and supervised its distribution among the Faculty, said that while the effects of one letter cannot be measured in exact terms, "when no one outside the USSR speaks up, they feel that they can do whatever they want to their dissidents...
...West is left with only one alternative--a renewed effort at detente. Even if we view the USSR as, to quote President Reagan, "the world's most evil force," a policy of coexistence and commerce can still be productive. At worst, detente will maintain the status quo and keep tensions to an acceptable level. At best, it might even produce some changes in Soviet foreign and domestic policy...
...would be putting words in Goldman's mouth to say he advocates detente. But his book does tell us enough about the current Soviet predicament to make such a policy seem logical. By providing much-needed look at the USSR. Goldman has done the inquisitive Westerner a valuable service. Figuratively at least, he has made the iron curtain a little more transparent...