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...Ramos (heroic); the once- and-future Defense Minister Juan Ponce Enrile (sophisticated); White House Emissary Senator Paul Laxalt (resolute). Corazon Aquino came across as increasingly impressive as did American diplomacy, in a rare successful role. The villain, as ever, was Marcos, his face a chart of unreason, corruption and bluff. The hard eyes asked always: Is there one more hand to play? The people: No. Close-up on the shrunken leader, descending a plane, protected by an umbrella...
Reagan's counteroffer was spelled out in a letter to Gorbachev. The purpose: to call the Soviets' bluff by advancing the timetable for mutual reductions. Instead of five to eight years, the U.S. called for eliminating all U.S. and Soviet medium-range missiles in Europe as well as Central Asia within 3 1/2 years. In the U.S. plan, 50% of all intermediate-range weapons in both Europe and Central Asia would have to be dismantled next year, and the remaining medium-range weapons would be removed...
...push tax reform through the Democrat-controlled House, the President had taken a calculated gamble and formed an unholy alliance with Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, a bluff old-style Democratic pol. Though studded with deals and concessions to buy off various Congressmen and their constituencies, the tax package Rostenkowski wrung out of his committee last month was at least a reasonable facsimile of the reform proposal launched by Reagan with great fanfare last spring. Beset by conflicting advice from his aides, however, the President hesitated before endorsing Rostenkowski's bill two weeks ago, and even then his praise...
...Papandreou, the victory was perhaps the sweetest in his 22-year political career and a vindication of sorts for his populist brand of socialism. In the final stages of the campaign, the Prime Minister pragmatically stressed his party's social welfare achievements. He rarely fell back on the bluff and bluster that after his first election four years ago he frequently employed against the U.S., NATO and the ten-nation European Community, which Greece joined...
Barely a month ago, big (6 ft. 2 in.), bluff William Bennett looked upon his early works as Secretary of Education and declared them good. "I have more affinity with the views of the American people than do most of my academic colleagues," he announced. "I think I am in the mainstream of American thinking...