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Schulman Notes End
Of Power Diplomacy

By NEIL HAND

"The Cold War concept can
no longer be applied to
U.S.-Soviet relations with
accuracy, as we are living in a
period of profound change due
to technological innovation."
Columbia Prof Marshall
Schulman told a large audience
in Wilson Hall yesterday

The time direct
confrontation between the
superpowers has passed and as
a result alignments of nations
are becoming more
ambiguous." he said

The United States
relationship with the Soviet
Union cannot be considered as
unilinear, but as operating on
many separate levels of
strategy political, economic,
and scientific nature"

Arms Limitation

In the field of arms
limitation, negotiators have
been continually faced with
the problem of new technology
and resultant pressures to build
new weapons systems,
according to the former special
assistant to the Undersecretary
of State.

In reply to whether the U.S.
should continue its plans to
build Trident an advanced
nuclear submarine Mr
Schulman said "It was
ll-advised to move toward
procurement"

hough the incentive was
to use the weapon as a
bargaining chip in current arms
limitations talks such tactics in
the past have not been to
stimulate discussion, but to
force the other side to build a
comparable weapon"

Trade Expansion

On a positive note, Mr
Schulman said he thought
increased U S -Soviet trade
would normalize relations and
"would act as a vehicle of
growth, establishing a web of
interdependency"

Trade expansion, though
still hampered by the Soviet
Union's shortage of foreign
currency would be furthered
by awarding them our
"most-favored-nation" status
passage of which is now being
sought in Congress.

Many Obstacles

"Peaceful co-existence does
not yet exist in the ideological
realm" Mr. Schulman said

There are still many
obstacles on the path to
peaceful cooperation in all
fields of endeavor, he added.