MORAL EQUIVALENCE: FALSE IMAGES OF U.S. AND SOVIET VALUES

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May 1, 1985
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~-a Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/04: CIA-RDP88B00443R000301380 MORAL EQUIVALENCE : FALSE IMAGES OF U.S. AND SOVIET VALUES A major trans-Atlantic gathering of intellectual leaders, policy-makers, STAT and concerned citizen is, exploring a subject vital to America's will to defend itself; presented by the Shavano Institute in cooperation with U.S. Department of State. The Madison Hotel, Washington, May 1-11, 1M "The democracies have their own serious injustices to deal with. But this should not prevent us from making the crucial moral distinctions between pluralist systems which acknowledge their own wrongs and shortcomings, and systems that excuse their defects in the same of totalitarian ideology."- Ronald Reagan Wednesday, May 1, 9:00 a.m. Subject to change; some items tentative George C. Roche Welcome by Shavano Institute Frank Shakespeare Opening by Conference Chairman Jeane J. Kirkpatrick/Panel "The Myth of Moral Equivalence" Melvin J. Lasky/Panel The View from Europe Luncbeon Irving Kristol "The Twisted Vocabulary of Superpower Symmetry" Jean-Francois Revel/Panel "How the Soviets Play on Western Self-Doubt" Vladmir Bukovsky/Panel "The View from the Kremlin" Joseph Sobran/Panel "Popular Culture and the Suicide of the West" Dinner Tom Wolfe "The Intelligent Coed's Guide to Socialism" Thursday, May 2, 9:00 a.m. Subject to change; some items tentative Norman Podhoretz/Panel "The Trahison des Cleres Revisited" Dorothy Rabinowitz/Panel "Can Journalism Be Value-Neutral?" Peter Berger/Panel "Gaining the Moral High Ground in the Third World" John Silber/Panel "What Role for Education?" Lancbeoo Sidney Hook "Misperceptions of American Democracy" Michael Novak "The World in 2010: A Moral and Political Portrait" Midge Decter, Moderator Open Forum of Seminar Participants on Steps to Expose the Moral Equivalence Fallacy Frank Shakespeare Closing by Conference Chairman Adjourn, 5:00 p.m. Full program, two luncheons, Wolfe dinner: $200. May 1 only, $125; May 2 only, $75. SHAVANO MSTTTUTE FOR NATIONAL L[ADERSHIP A dMobn of HMdMt Cake Sanitized Copy Approved for Release 2010/01/04: CIA-RDP88B00443R000301380017-2