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...support for an embargo against West European suppliers of parts for the Soviets' natural gas pipeline. (NATO allies flouted the embargo, and, last fall, Reagan was obliged to drop it.) Clark took over the Administration's El Salvador policy, and the resulting harder line has produced a backlash in Congress. He has generally backed Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger's resistance to budget cuts, even when it was clear that Congress would insist on trims. Clark is getting much of the blame for the politically costly skirmishing over Kenneth Adelman's nomination as arms-control chief...
Knowingly or not, Wickenden spared Princeton and the rest of the hemisphere the backlash that would undoubtedly have resulted. Complaints about the decision would have been more than justified after such an unorthodox procedure and would have kept People happy for a decade...
Excessive American concern with negotiability would indeed encourage, and reward, Soviet stonewalling. But by stubbornly pursuing proposals that seem almost intended to get nowhere, the Administration has touched off a backlash, both at home and abroad, against necessary military programs. It has also, if anything, encouraged the Soviets to crank out even more weapons that will eventually have to be countered militarily or bargained over diplomatically, or both. Just as the U.S. is trying, not very successfully, to punish the Soviets for their accumulation of military power in the past, part of the Soviet strategy right now is to punish...
...right now are going nowhere." With some irritation, Washington officials point out that the 1982 communique that envisioned the eventual cessation of U.S. arms sales to Taiwan represented a considerable modification by Ronald Reagan of long-held views on the subject of China policy. "There's a growing backlash among policymakers in this town," said one U.S. Government official. "They're saying, 'No matter what we do, there is no way to please the Chinese...
...bankers' blitz is stirring a backlash. Senator Bob Dole, a central target of the lobbying effort for his role in the passage of the tax bill, has turned on his tormentors with particular vigor. At a meeting of the A.B. A. last month, he accused it of waging an "unscrupulous" campaign with lobbying tactics that had reached "a historic low." Both Dole and Regan have publicly suggested that banks already pay less than their fair share of taxes. A congressional report last year said that in 1981, commercial banks paid only 2.3% of their profits in federal Income taxes...