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Short of arming the revolutionary underground--an unattractive prospect for most Western governments--the only possibility for change in Argentina is an international economic boycott. But the USSR and West Germany, which conduct a significant amount of trade with Argentina, would no doubt be unwilling to cooperate as would the United States under a conservative president such as Reagan...
Later in the year, after the USSR banished Andrei D. Sakharov, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, to isolated Gorky, the Physics Department invited him to spend a semester here as a Loeb Lecturer...
Moynihan said the USSR has pursued a military policy of "the more the better," while the U.S. has followed a "second strike" philosophy. He added, "The USSR now has military and strategic superiority, and they want to turn it into political superiority," and said he is beginning to find the argument for a defensive system more attractive...
...illustrate his argument, Moynihan described a scenario in which the USSR could destroy all U.S. missiles using only half their own, thus leaving the United States powerless to retaliate, even with a second strike force...
...added that the committee also participates in campaigns against countries such as Chile, Paraguay and the USSR where human rights violations are universally flagrant and widespread...