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This may be the most important book published in the election year. Two years ago Senator Moynihan was reelected by the largest margin in a midterm election in the history of the U.S. Senate. Here he speaks to the principles at stake this year.Loyalties addresses three basic is- sues: international peace, interna- tional racism, international law. The first part gives the clearest account yet published of the odd history and desperate meaning of the arms race of ICBMS, SS-20s, the MX, the Cruise. The second examines the Communist theory of racism that is applied to those who oppose Soviet totalitarianism. In the third, Moyni- han asks who, if not Americans, will respect law.Daniel Patrick Moynihan, who is Vice Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is plainly a patriot. As a former Ambassador to the United Nations, he understands the importance of laws, honored or broken. In mid-1983, he stood with a small group of Senators who opposed the Reagan administration's act to fund the MX-a decision he says had "a catatonic quality." And he shows how President Carter lost his office by dithering away principles in the UN and abroad. ISBN:0151547483
