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Despite the eloquence of his Georgetown speech, Senator Edward Kennedy occasionally still has some difficulty in articulating his views.

Last week in New York, he was asked by Howard Squadron, president of the American Jewish Congress: "How do you hope to deal with the Soviet Union ... while avoiding resumption of the cold war?" The first sentence of Kennedy's answer: "Well, I think we need a foreign policy which is tied to our national security interests, which are tied to intelligent interests for the United States, that are tied to energy interests, which are tied to a sound economy here in the United States and an energy policy that is going to free us from heavy dependence to the Persian Gulf countries and to OPEC, which is strongly, which has the strength and the support of the American people, and which is predictable and certain, which has a down side to it in terms of disincentives to the Soviet Union for actions which are contrary to the, uh, to uh, a standard of both international behavior and also has incentives to the Soviet Union, uh, to try to work in ways that can at least some, uh, create at least a world which is going to be freer from, uh, the nuclear nightmare which hangs over the world."

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