Lehigh University - Epitome Yearbook (Bethlehem, PA)

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th -;:| 0) D 0) Q to ISSUES: 1976 AND BEYOND LOWENSTEIN VS. RUSHER . . . the electoral system itself seems somehow unable to register even seismographic sense of American will. — Lowenstein. Zwl i 0) o Allard Lowenstein, (standing), debates William Rusher, (seated left). Dean Brian Brockway officiates. 26, Speakers Activities c 1 1 0) to c

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As Jong as the United States maintains nuclear equality with the Soviet Union, keeps NATO defenses in repair, and as long as the Western European governments remain committed to the same objectives of freedom, a direct challenge to major Western nations is improbable. — George Ball. The United States necessarily is the only counterweight to the expansion of Soviet power, and it has given us, in the past four years, an unenviable destiny which we must face. — James Schlesinger. Once a considerable number of nations have nuclear weapons, and if the nuclear arms race continues between the United States and Russia, it is inevitable that there will be a general nuclear war, meaning the end of civilization as we know it, if not the end of mankind. — Hans Morgenthau. Speakers Activities, 25

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JIMMY BRESLIN Disorder gives this country energy. I don ' t think a democracy can survive with perfect order. I am essentiaiiy a working man, not a great, profound thinker. FLO KENNEDY In a reaily oppressive society, as completely corrupt as ours, we ' re all niggerized in one way or another ... the less (democratic) society is, the more we ' re all niggerized. Speakers Activities, 27