Word: bushes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...applause was equally thunderous from liberals and conservatives in the U.S. New York Times columnists Anthony Lewis, a staunch liberal, and William Safire, a stalwart conservative, hardly ever agree on anything, but both hailed Bush's plan in facing columns last week...
Never mind, for the moment, that hard and complicated negotiating remains before NATO and the Warsaw Pact can start cutting their conventional forces in Europe to low, equal numbers. Never mind that Bush's goal of reaching agreement in "six months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree...
Those matters will certainly become important in the months ahead. But what counts for now is that this time it is the U.S. challenging the Soviet Union to speed up arms talks and go beyond Moscow's initial proposals. Declared Bush: "Here we go now, on the offensive, with a proposal that is bold and that tests whether the Soviet Union will move toward balance." What counts also is that NATO has managed to hold itself together...
...very effusiveness of the praise showered on Bush showed how much the West has been hungering for the leadership that only a U.S. President can provide. For the first time, Bush indicated that he could satisfy that hunger. Nor was his triumph just a public relations coup. It may really open the door to the most significant arms reductions since the end of World War II. Then Europe, East and West, may finally be able to give its full attention to creating a stable, open and unified continent...
...beginnings of such a rosy future could lie in Bush's scheme for lowering some of Europe's military barriers...