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Citing Iran, the USSR, and Africa as examples, Millett urged women to recognize the universality of female oppression and to realize that "until we can begin to identify with the victims of brutality, we ourselves will go on being just that...
...what is one to make of the threat to inflict "unacceptable damage on the enemy should he strike? Who has ever defined "unacceptable damage?" using what standards? and whose norms? I will pass over these matters, however, to proceed to an issue of especially grave importance for the U.S.-USSR military competition, namely the concept "strategic" itself...
Following a recent trip to the Soviet Union for discussions on nuclear arms control and reduction, I have talked with many groups about these issues. The current crises in Iran and Afghanistan, however, have challenged any easy optimism regarding U.S.-USSR agreements and have raised many questions. Following are some of those that I have been most frequently asked...
...Soviet economy and wound their pride. By not participating in the Games, he hopes to make an international statement of our condemnation of their occupation of Afghanistan (and also of the way that they treat dissidents), yet it is doubtful this statement will have any effect on the USSR. When Vladimir Pozner, a Soviet radio commentator, was asked about the boycott, he replied that if we were trying to punish the USSR by boycotting the Olympics, we would fail. The Soviet Union, like the United States, is too proud and too powerful to be punished in such a way, Pozner...
...next trip to the USSR my diet consisted of cookies and coke, nice safe pre-packaged foods," Forman says...