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Other Saint Laurent signatures show up early. One is the "little black dress," a Chanel revolution in the '20s and '30s, when it symbolized the offhand smartness of the modern workingwoman. Saint Laurent reigns over this much copied genre, because it seems to fit his double-sided vision of women-as ladies and as tramps. He has confected delicate, gauzy little nothings, sculpted bold ones, produced sexy variations and tarted up a few that can only be called sleazoid...
...National Security Council meeting on Nov. 12,1981, Reagan sided with the Pentagon, although he did not go quite as far as Perle would have liked. Shorter-range missiles, for example, were to be treated separately and less stringently than the SS-20s. Reagan had paid little attention to the interagency wrangling, but he worked hard on the packaging of the final position. He pored over numerous drafts for a speech, including one that he revised while returning to Washington from Texas aboard the specially adapted Boeing 747 that was equipped to serve as his airborne command center during...
...zero, the U.S.S.R. is prepared to go to zero too, retaining only what it needs to offset the British and French forces." That would mean needs to offset the British and French forces." That would mean retaining about 250 Soviet bombers and missiles, including at least 162 SS-20s, while the U.S. would still have to forgo entirely its Pershing IIs and Tomahawks...
...they would remain so. The central sticking point was that the Soviets showed no inclination to sanction the deployment of any new U.S. missiles in Western Europe and the Reagan Administration, by holding firm to the zero option, was not willing to let the Soviets keep any SS-20s anywhere in the U.S.S.R...
...weapons in Western Europe. In doing so, Moscow would have tacitly conceded that it had created an imbalance and that the West was entitled to redress it. The Soviets would have also abandoned their claim to compensation for the British and French nuclear forces. A freeze on Asian SS-20s would have enabled the U.S. to assure China, Japan and South Korea that European arms control was not being conducted at their expense. Under the plan, the U.S. would have ended up with more warheads on its cruise missiles than the Soviets would have had on their remaining SS-20s...