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

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP88B00443R000301380017-2
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 4, 2010
• Sequence Number: 17
• Publication Date: May 1, 1985
• Content Type: MISC

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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
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