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Even before the war ended, Americans began recoiling from Wilson's international activism. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer went on witch- hunts for Bolsheviks. The Senate rejected the Treaty of Versailles. America closed down Ellis Island and slammed the door against new immigration. What followed in the '20s was the "era of good feeling," a period with some resemblance to Reagan...
...jurors range in age from mid-20s to early 70s. Old friends by now, they celebrate each anniversary of the Kemner trial with a birthday cake. Two years ago, on Judge Goldenhersh's 40th birthday, they presented him with a silver plaque inscribed with their names and juror numbers...
...option. In 1981 the Reagan Administration presented just such a proposal for the elimination of all medium-range missiles from Europe. The move was an attempt to soothe peace activists nervous about the pending deployment of Pershing IIs and cruise missiles, which were intended to match the Soviet SS-20s. Given the proposal's nonnegotiable demands, it was assumed the Soviets would never consider it seriously...
...they have limited military importance. If dismantled, only some 1,500 of the estimated 50,000 warheads would be removed from superpower arsenals. Moreover, existing strategic forces can easily cover the targets now handled by them. Still, West European leaders have long clamored for removal of the Soviet SS-20s. They now have to face the very real possibility of such an event and its complicated consequences. Diplomats may be recalling an aphorism of Oscar Wilde: "When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers...
Many Europeans remain concerned about Soviet shorter-range nuclear arms. These can be fired up to 560 miles, compared with the 3,000-mile range of the SS-20s, and could still hit West European targets. The Soviet arsenal includes some 500 such missiles in Europe, while NATO has none. The U.S. draft treaty tabled in Geneva includes provisions for NATO to match the Soviets' shorter- range systems. But even if Moscow is cooperative, efforts to equal Soviet strength would require new NATO deployments. That could provoke a painful repeat of the parliamentary debates and ugly street protests that attended...