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...Administration is sharply divided over what these reports should say. Hardliners, whose most determined and skillful representative is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, are pressing for the most damning, categorical interpretation of any available evidence that the Soviets have flagrantly violated SALT. Their charges of Soviet cheating buttress their broader case that arms control, at least as practiced traditionally, is not in the national interest. Moderates, centered at the State Department, are inclined to a more equivocal-and, they believe, a more subtle and accurate-reading of the Soviet record. They tend to avoid stark references to violations...
Such scenes could hardly do more to buttress Reagan's message that "America is back" on top-and that he is the man to keep it there...
Part of the quarrel between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. is over the question of just how bad their relations are and whether they are likely to improve in the near future. One reason the Soviets announced their boycott of the Olympics last week was to buttress their argument that relations are very bad indeed...
...involvement "for a while" is that she "would have to find a man who shared my spiritual beliefs." Hamill bluntly dismisses these beliefs as "intellectually ridiculous." Says he: "Shirley always has had a tendency to go cosmic on small evidence, to start with the general and find specifics to buttress her belief. She doesn't read very much." He speculates that her fascination with the spirit may, like her past absorption with politics and travel, turn out to be "a phase that she will exhaust, in the same way an actor exhausts a part." Says Shirley: "I have thought...
Navy later maintained, there were at least 140 surface ships and 70 submarines involved in the exercises. Although Lehman could have been exaggerating the numbers to buttress his often stated case for expansion of the Navy, he left no doubt that the latest maneuvers were the largest the Soviets have ever conducted...