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Taped. There it was. The real truth in the midst of veiled and chaotic maneuvering. Why not tape those conversations with the Governor? What did it matter when one was battling for a just cause against an unscrupulous adversary? In Bobby's view of political combat, enemies often must be fought on their terms. The good of the nation and a higher morality demanded it. History would understand...
...Americans took full advantage of their diplomatic windfall. After the chaotic session had ended, Chief U.S. Delegate Max Kampelman drove home the Administration view that the 1975 Helsinki accords, which are the basis for the 16-month-old Madrid conference and which are viewed in Western Europe as a framework for guaranteeing human rights in East bloc countries, have been effectively gutted by Soviet aggression. Said Kampelman: "It would appear as if the Soviet Union is acting to undermine both the letter and spirit of Helsinki." Haig contended that continuing the talks at this point would be to "simply condone...
Another concern for the up and coming Democrats is a broad-based welfare reform. Here they follow the lead of a prototypical neoliberal, New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. From his days in the early 1970s as a domestic affairs aide to Nixon, Moynihan has proposed that the chaotic assortment of public assistance programs be replaced with a guaranteed annual income--a "negative income tax" payment according to need...
...Reagan Administration duly submitted the required certification, even though the congressional demand was a bit unrealistic. For one thing, assigning specific blame for atrocities can be difficult in a chaotic situation like that in El Salvador. For another, the congressional directive ignored the question of murders carried out by the left-wing guerrillas. But as various human rights organizations began to assail the U.S. for supporting the Duarte government, the Administration took a tough stand, arguing that El Salvador occupied an important place in an East-West struggle for dominance in Latin America. As Haig put it, "The threat...
...There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls are, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there is that detail. And there...