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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DuPont was willing to ally himself with Jackson because he wanted to emphasize this common concern. And that step showed that at least some leading Republicans care enough to acknowledge the problems of inner-city poverty and to dedicate themselves to finding workable solutions. This will probably be enough to make me vote for Vice President George Bush...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Compassionate Comparisons | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

...poisonous juices. The author of that strategy, George Kennan, believed Soviet Communism "bears within it the seeds of its own decay." Containment, he wrote in 1947, could eventually lead to "the gradual mellowing of Soviet power." But until then, he stressed, "there can be no appeal to common purposes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Thus, according to Kennan's original criteria, there perhaps can, finally, be an "appeal to common purposes" in Soviet-American relations beyond the elemental one of mutual survival. Until now, avoiding nuclear war has been the only common purpose on which the superpowers could continually agree. That is why arms control has been such a central element in superpower relations. Attempts to reconcile the deeper political disputes over the relationship between the individual and the state -- or between the Soviet state and the rest of the world -- have always failed. For example, in 1972 the superpowers signed a "code...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Policy: Beyond Containment | 9/26/1988 | See Source »

Turn off all the lights in the Prudential Center, shut down Fanueil Hall and lock up the Boston Common until the Red Sox have won it. When they actually clinch the title...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Beware the Ghosts of Fenway | 9/23/1988 | See Source »

Asked if he thought Wright had abused a process in which the executive branch shares secret intelligence information with selected congressional leaders, Reagan said, "I just say it's common sense to not discuss anything having to do with intelligence operations and so forth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Reagan Blasts Wright for Indiscretion | 9/22/1988 | See Source »

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