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...fact did threaten to walk out on the spot if the U.S. would not renounce, in advance of any formal bargaining, its Strategic Defense Initiative to develop a system that could intercept and destroy nuclear missiles. Shultz replied that the U.S. would rather leave Geneva without an agreement than abandon SDI, which is popularly known as Star Wars. The Soviets decided to try again later and kept talking. Nonetheless, said Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, a member of Shultz's team, "if the final session Tuesday afternoon had ended on schedule (at 5 p.m.), the conference would have failed...
...guerrillas are expected to filter back into Kampuchea, but the Vietnamese have made public statements indicating that they intend a permanent occupation of the border region, depriving the guerrillas of their comfortable zone of sanctuary. If the K.P.N.L.F. intends to fight on, it will probably have to abandon static defenses in favor of more classic guerrilla tactics, dispersing its strength and moving deeper into the Kampuchean countryside. Said one analyst in Thailand: "If you're going to be a proper guerrilla, you can't be protecting large, fixed bodies of civilians...
...Reagan holds firm on Star Wars, he might as well abandon his pursuit of drastic reductions in existing Soviet weaponry. The best he could hope for would be an interim agreement that somewhat lowers existing ceilings on strategic weapons and perhaps imposes some new subceilings to cover shorter- range weapons. There is no guarantee that the President would approve such a plan. It would mean siding with State Department moderates against Pentagon hard-liners. The plot would thicken further, since there are divisions within the State Department as well. Paul Nitze, who is Shultz's special adviser on arms control...
...Revolution, continually pestering his son about past moneys owed (including repeated references to the cost of a small quantity of Lapsang Souchong tea). A born conciliator, William attempts to mediate between the Crown and the colonies, but even when arrested by revolutionary troops, he refuses to abandon his monarchist beliefs. Benjamin, according to Randall, makes a formal request to the Continental Congress that his son be incarcerated. Then he ignores William's sufferings, including eight months in solitary confinement and the death of his wife Elizabeth, which occurs during William's three-year prison term...
Next Mr. Gooen argues that laws against abortion will be unenforceable. I respond, first, that we should not make our laws on the basis of what is easily enforceable, rather we should employ the resources to enforce them to the extent necessary. We cannot abandon laws against murder because people will do it anyway, we should hire the police to stop as many of them as we can. But second, empirically, legal abortions, since 1973, have taken a 120-fold increase, while illegal abortions have taken a four-fold decrease. On balance, there are 40 times the number of abortions...