REALISM, IDEALISM: POSSIBLE ROADS TO PEACE

• Document Type: CREST
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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: January 11, 2012
• Sequence Number: 3
• Publication Date: April 24, 1985
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR
24 April 1985
Realism, idealism: possible roads to peace
By Rushworth M. Kidder
Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
Boston
"I feel with an Old Testament certainty that we cannot
continue indefinitely the way the world is now going,
with the world's weapons set on a hair trigger and the
doomsday clock at five minutes to noon."
With those sober words, Colorado Gov. Richard
Lamm summarized the thinking that led him to submit
his prize-winning essay to the Monitor's "Peace 2010"
contest.
Speaking to the other two prize winners and to more
than a hundred guests assembled here for the April 22
award luncheon at the Colonnade Hotel, Governor
Lamm said that "we must adapt our thinking . . . to the
new realities around us because we face a new equation.
"It has historically been one thing to die for your
country, " said Lamm, whose essay, centering on a
limited nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan,
appeared in yesterday's paper. "?It is a different thing to
die with your country.
The contest, which drew more than 1,300 entries from
30 different nations, demonstrated what the Monitor's
managing editor, Richard A. Nenneman, called "the
depth of feeling that the American public has about
peace, and the amount of knowledge that exists in the so-
called lay level about international affairs."
It also illustrated the broad range' of that concern.
Lamm, who has held the governorship of the Rocky
Mountain state for a decade, is a seasoned author with
several books to his credit. His fellow winners -. like
most contest entrants = are less-public figures. Steven
Horowitz, a free-lance journalist from Milwaukee,
worked as a shepherd on an Isaac'.: kibbuti whi!P devel-
oping his ideas on geopolitical reconciliation. Thomas
Fehsenfeld, a businessman from Grand Rapids, Mich.,
candidly told the audience that "I've never had anything
published before - I'm deeply grateful for the chance to
be heard."
Mr. Horowitz, whose essay centered on -a rapproche-
ment between East and West Germany as a starting-
point for world peace, focused on what he called "the
concept of reconciliation."
ment appears today on page 18, described his scenano as
"a hopeful one."
"I believe in humanity" he said, "and I believe in the
creative power of the human mind to find better alterna-
tives for us. I believe that every war or threat of war be-
tween nations represents the failure of the imagination,"
he continued, adding that "there are always other alter-
natives besides war or surrender; and this I think is the
real meaning of the Peace 2010 contest."
The purpose of the contest, said Monitor editor Kath-
erine W. Fanning, was "to stimulate some breakthrough
thinking" that would help "shed some of the baggage
that suggests peace is an impossible dream."
In opening remarks, Boston Mayor Raymond Flynn
noted that the contest dealt with ..the fundamental issue
that transcends all issues." And Massachusetts Gov. Mi-
chael S. Dukakis noted
more important than the one which has been the sub-
ject of this ... competition."
The contest's panel of judges, represented on this oc-
casion by Prof. Lincoln Bloomfield of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, made its final selections from a
group of 45 essays sent forward after an inituWe~
by Monitor editors. The other judges
Waldheim, former secretary-general of the United Na-
tions; Curt Gasteyger, director of the Program for Strate-
gic and International Security Studies in Geneva; and
Stanfield Turner former director of the United
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"they told us that they were looking for 'realism and
idealism.'
"We need both," Mr. Foell added, noting that,"One
without the other won't work.' 11.
"I think some of the important questions " about,
reconciliation have not been asked," he told his audience:
Speaking in the context of President Reagan's forthcom-
ing and controversial trip to West Germany, he noted
that "the real question we as Americans should ask- is
whether a reconciliation between the United States and
East Germany can begin. ='-
Mr.. Fehsenfeld, whose essay on the use of computer
networking to promote the concepts of conflict manage .
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