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...want to sound rude or anything, but please, Mr. Reagan, take your Pershings, neutron bombs and cruise missiles and get out of Germany! We are old enough to take care of ourselves. Tens of thousands of innocent people in Viet Nam, Chile and Nicaragua have already died in the name of freedom and liberty. We don't want to be next in line. I'm not anti-American or proSoviet. I'm simply a human being and I don't want to get nuked off this world by a friend...
...diminishing resource like oil is dangerous both to the economy and to national security. Instead, he advocates greater use of nuclear power while trying to speed up the transition to other, renewable forms of energy. He also contends that the antimilitarism of many American liberals, a legacy from the Viet Nam War, is outmoded in the face of the Soviet threat. The U.S., Tsongas believes, must seek rough military equivalence with the U.S.S.R. while pursuing arms control negotiations, taking care to avoid either aggravating or ignoring the Soviets' aggressive tendencies...
...meet with Alexander Solzhenitsyn.* This year he delayed (but so far not once prevented) the confirmation of six suspect Reagan bureaucrats. Alone he voted against a bill to counter the 1977 Arab boycott of Israel. He promotes South Africa's racist regime with gusto. After the fall of South Viet Nam, Helms introduced a bill that would make all refugee aid private, and clipped a check for $1,000 to his proposal. Fighting Nelson Rockefeller's confirmation as Vice President in 1974, Helms declared...
Ambassador to the U.N. under Jimmy Carter and a former member of the contact group: "We are in danger of being on the wrong and losing side, as we were in Viet Nam, Iran and Nicaragua." A tilt toward South Africa, he adds, is "shortsighted, naive and part of [the Administration's] ideology and paranoia toward Communism. The South Africans' hope is to turn attention away from self-determination and racial domination to an East-West arena...
Lieut. Colonel James Hunt, Army ROTC program coordinator, on recruitment: "A lot of these kids don't remember Viet Nam-that helps...