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...advantages the United States might derive are primarily diplomatic ones, Huntington said. We might exploit the split by pressuring the more moderate Soviet Union, but this approach has its limits because the U.S. cannot negotiate with China. If the USSR ignores U.S. demands, "we cannot very well threaten to make a deal with the Chinese," Huntington said...
Fred L. Whipple, director of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, said that the USSR and the U.S. are engaged in two concurrent programs, both of which are "going beautifully...
...Stark Draper, director of the instrumentation Laboratory at M.I.T., agreed with Whipple. He compared the U.S. and the USSR to two horses running on separate tracks. They are not competing against each other and, therefore, they cannot be compared...
...There is little debate over the general need and value of learning about the Soviet Union. The country stands as the antithetical counterpart to the United States, and is the most prominent exponent of one of this epoch's two great social movements. Frequent discussion of Communism and the USSR and high enrollments in Soviet courses taught in the University reflect the strong desire at Harvard to know about the Soviet world...
...courses offered (Economics 133, Government 115, Government 115, Government 197, History 156, Slavic 156, and Social Relations 105) each is too specific for the person who is not a concentrator in the department giving the course. Secondly, the compartmentalization of disciplines fails the casual and serious student of the USSR by not presenting an integrated view of the country. The study of Russian government is onesided without some understanding of the Soviet economy and cultural patterns, just as the study of Soviet literature in a vacuum cannot provide an adequate insight into the USSR. Similarly, this specialization has resulted...