Word: antinuclear
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Beyond that, the new Chancellor will face vigorous opposition from the Social Democrats and from West Germany's rising third force of environmentalists and antinuclear activists known as the Greens. Kohl seemed to grasp the political difficulties confronting him as he faced television cameras after the Bundestag vote. Said he: "Now I am the Chancellor. I have been in politics too long, know too much about the daily routine of politics, not to know what difficulties lie ahead...
...outcome may depend largely on Reagan's overall political fortunes and the strength of the antinuclear movement a year or two from now. Administration hard-liners believe that no START is better than warmed-over SALT. They fear, in Rostow's words, that it would be "fatal to say we are trying to get an agreement before an election." The Soviets could be tempted to read that as a signal that they need only wait until American resolve in the negotiations cracks under domestic political pressure...
...broad appeal of the antinuclear arms movement, which up to now had been its main strength, may have become its most serious weakness. With so many constituents to please, the movement seems uncertain about what to do next. There is a vision of ultimate success, of course: the dismantling of all the world's nuclear arsenals, no more threat of annihilation. With this dream no sane person can quibble. Where the disagreement comes is over what workable, real-world arms control measures will be acceptable and, even more, how to achieve them...
...endorsed practically identical freeze resolutions, all of which call on President Reagan to pursue such a treaty with the Soviet Union. In California, campaigners for a bilateral freeze initiative, placed by petition on November's ballot, have an advertising budget of $1.2 million. Yet all the widely supported antinuclear initiatives are almost certain to be only symbolic outcries, since neither the House nor Senate is likely to heed the calls for an immediate nuclear freeze. In any case, Reagan is adamantly opposed; he believes such an arms control gambit would be a simplistic quick fix, one that would, moreover...
...explains Ezekiel Emanuel, a second-year student at Harvard Medical School. "We have to articulate a position on what the next step is in the long process of ending the arms race." Roger Molander, the former White House strategic analyst who heads Ground Zero, a scrupulously non-partisan antinuclear educational campaign, understands that it is hard for an impassioned mass movement to accommodate either slow practical progress or technical complexity. "What people are looking for," says Molander, "is someone who will say, 'Here is the path to the solution to the problem.' But it's characteristic...