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Dates: during 1980-1989
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That kind of concession displeases conservatives, who say the Soviets should suffer through their economic and political crises without American assistance. The White House dispatched Vice President Dan Quayle to disarm the hard-liners even before Bush left Europe. Quayle uttered anachronistic noises to the Washington Post, including a nostalgic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Soviet and U.S. officials have essentially agreed to reduce their forces in Europe to 275,000 each. But some NATO allies are dragging their feet on peripheral issues. British and French negotiators are wary of any deal that reduces the size of their independent air forces -- so wary, in fact...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The prospect of inch-by-inch progress in Vienna and Geneva only underscored warnings that there will be no quick "peace dividend" for the overstretched federal budget. Defense Secretary Dick Cheney's planned $180 billion in Pentagon cuts through 1995 amount to little more than deletions in the military's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

Despite these challenges, Bush is still buoyed by an element of good fortune. Gorbachev seems content to let the President move at his own pace. The Soviets and NATO allies support a stabilizing U.S. presence in Europe. And a gradually reduced Soviet threat may enable Bush to squeeze just enough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Easier Said Than Done | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

The old is dying and the new cannot be born. In the interregnum, a great variety of morbid symptoms appear.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West Out of Control? | 12/18/1989 | See Source »

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