The security program is apt to be only as good as the overall pattern and climate of social relations and loyalties of workers and executives of all ranks.
And it is the state which - through its laws and its edicts, its administration of the public services - sets the tone and tenor, the climate, of race relations in society.
Though many are well versed in Soviet political affairs, they have been reduced to speculating about the work loads of the Soviet security police, the whims of regional party organizations, the climate of Soviet relations with Arab nations.
But the Chinese are right in saying there are "more concrete ways" to convince the world that the Soviet Union really seeks a better climate of international relations and an era of lowered fears.
The prototypical mass movement in this regard was the American civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s, which resulted in legislation forbidding most forms of discrimination against a large African American minority and which fundamentally altered the climate of race relations in the United States.
At the heart of the spending debate are two questions: In a climate of eased relations with Moscow, how much should the United States spend to make its nuclear weapons less vulnerable to attack, reducing the already slight risk of a nuclear war?
It was even uglier because of the current climate of race relations in the United States.
In this spirit, the European Council is convinced that further efforts will have to be made on both sides to prevent, for example by the establishment of an effective early warning system, the many, deep-rooted trade disputes from compromising the general climate of bilateral relations.
In the hothouse climate of Taiwan's relations with the mainland, however, nothing is simple.
In a climate of cooling economic relations, could the Cell provide a model for managing the potential risks of Chinese involvement in critical national infrastructure?
