Word: campaigners
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...progress in talks to cut the two sides' arsenals of strategic weapons slowed to a crawl because of the U.S. election campaign and problems including continued differences over Reagan's "Star Wars" program for a space-based defense against nuclear attack...
What most annoys Shultz's critics is his conviction that he alone knows how to persuade the Israelis to cooperate with American efforts in the region. Last spring Shultz waged a similar single-handed campaign on behalf of a memorandum of agreement that strengthened Israel's unique military and economic ties to the U.S. He resisted suggestions that the U.S. should use the memorandum negotiations to persuade Israel to moderate its strong-arm tactics against the Palestinian intifadeh...
...place. The frightened silence of the black community (and the astonishing courage of some of its members); the sullen resentment of "outsiders" from the white community; the alternately bland, sneering and self-righteous denials by the local lawmen that any crime was committed at all; the steadily mounting campaign of violence intended to terrorize everyone into complicity in this lie -- all of this is handled with a deft and compulsive power...
Tactical explanations don't go far. After all, the biggest tactical error of this campaign, Quayle, was made by the other guy. And tactical explanations miss the bigger picture. The Democratic Party is not the only left-of-center party to find itself increasingly shut out of national power. Earlier this month Israel's Labor Party lost its third election out of the past four. Its decline appears irreversible. The same is true for Britain's Labor Party, defeated for the third time in a row last year...
George Bush promised during the campaign that he would fight to keep the defense budget 2% above the rise of inflation, but he is unlikely to get that much without a tax increase. Even with such an improbable hike, Bush's numbers would fall more than $140 billion short of what the military wants over the next five years. The President-elect has yet to spell out which military programs he will put on hold. Bush's likely pick for Defense Secretary, former Texas Senator John Tower, would only add to the controversy. An unabashed hawk with strong ties...