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Finally, Reagan sent some blunt signals to Moscow. He repeated his harsh characterization of Soviet leaders, but also said he would be willing to negotiate a new treaty on limiting strategic arms "any time that they want to sit down and discuss a legitimate reduction of nuclear weapons." Reagan said later that he does not think his tough statements have harmed U.S.-Soviet relations...
...bargaining would have been ruled out, what was the alternative? James Schlesinger, who held a variety of Cabinet-level posts under Presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter, has a blunt answer: "We should have sent forces into the area and delivered an ultimatum. If the Iranians did not respond, we should have punished them." The counterarguments to that are obvious: the use of force might have resulted in the death of the hostages, it might well have led to a superpower confrontation with the Soviet Union, it might have pushed Iran into the Soviet sphere and-most troublesome...
Cucinotta calls Morrison "Hazel's case," but it is his too. Charged with selling heroin, Hazel Morrison, a black woman of 35, hired Cucinotta to represent her for $200. But before he could, two federal Drug Enforcement Administration agents went to Morrison's home. They were blunt: "Your lawyer is going to make an ass out of himself, and you too," said one. Get rid of Cucinotta, they urged, and help the DEA finger a bigger pusher in return for leniency. If she refused, they said, she could expect a "stiff sentence" from the judge, who "hates black...
...Tehran government had any hopes of getting better terms from the Reagan Administration, the President-elect effectively shot them down last week with two highly publicized broadsides. Following up in the mood of his blunt Christmas Eve characterization of the Iranian hostage takers as "criminals," Reagan told reporters: "I don't think you pay ransom for people that have been kidnaped by barbarians...
...economic growth is expected to drop to zero this year. What to do? The government last winter froze wages, an act that provoked a rash of strikes and poisoned the social climate. The 1.4 million beneficiaries of state aid, a potent political force, have so far managed to blunt major attempts at social services reform in parliament. "Everyone agrees to the welfare state, but not on how to pay for it," concludes Wim Kok, head of the Dutch Labor Federation. "We are in the middle of a choice on how to divide a pie that is no longer getting bigger...