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Article: Americans press the Soviet position. (strategic defense initiative) (column)
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- National Review
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- September 26, 1986
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AMERICANS PRESS THE SOVIET POSITION
ONCE AGAIN, we have those big-name advisors counseling the President in effect to abandon his Strategic Defense Initiative. But this time around there are two names not usually associated with the soft school on Soviet diplomacy, Melvin Laird's and, most conspicuously, Brent Scowcroft's. They in effect signed a 3,500-word paper addressed to the President by Harold Brown, who served President Carter as Secretary of Defense.
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