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With the MX on the back burner, the U.S. should concentrate in the near term on building up its conventional forces and its more purely retaliatory weapons systems like cruise missiles, which are too slow to threaten a sneak attack. Reagan himself, in presenting his START proposal, has argued that ICBM warheads, because they can be hurled at their targets so quickly, are potential first-strike weapons and therefore destabilizing, while slower-flying cruise missiles and bombers enhance stability. Some of the money allocated for Dense Pack would be better spent on what Reagan calls "slow-flyers" in the next...
...Peking has seemed unwilling either to give Reagan credit for coming a long way or to cooperate with him in putting the Taiwan issue on the back burner. The Chinese have chosen instead to keep the heat on. Reagan defended his approval of the Shanghai II communiqué against right-wing critics by pointing out that the U.S. promise to reduce arms sales to Taiwan was linked to China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqu...
...took the attitude that they could do anything they wanted with regard to Taiwan, and that forced the Chinese leaders to demonstrate that Peking can't be taken for granted, that China has other places to turn to. Let's keep the problem on the back burner and not go off on new arms sales [to Taiwan] at least so long as Peking continues down the path of 'peacefully resolving' the issue. I think it will be resolved subtly. The Chinese know they need a vital, economically strong Taiwan and Hong Kong too. Both, I think...
Daniel Yergin and his co-authors though, have issued a clear warning to the U.S. and the world to work out a coherent energy policy before time runs out. Global Security is an important book which conveys the immediacy of an energy problem pushed to the back-burner by the current administration that believes "the only energy crisis is the existence of the Department of Energy...
...produced almost as many self-portraits as Rembrandt, who painted himself 60 times. The first face of Raphael Soyer is dated 1917. The artist printed it on a sheet of cheap paper with engraving plates he heated on the gas burner in the family kitchen in The Bronx. Though coarsely crosshatched, its composition a tad askew, the engraving is a riveting reflection of the artist at 18, staring at the mirror with the same unswerving, enigmatic gaze that he would cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon...