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...will be able in the near future to affix our signatures to the accord. The task set by life itself ?to put an end to the unrestrained arms race, to ensure security for our nations and to consolidate international peace at a lower level of military confrontation???is worth the effort...
...lead the nation? The answer was supposed to be forthcoming in the much-anticipated first presidential debate of 1976. It turned out to be an underwhelming event, the debate in which the power failed and in which neither man gained a decisive edge. The situation after the 90-minute confrontation???interrupted by a 27-minute audio blowout that was a testament to the fallibilities of television ?was much the same as before. Carter was out front but slipping; Ford was coming up from behind, and the election had suddenly turned into a close race...
Carter may well be the candidate who has the most to gain by debating these and other issues with Ford?establishing his stature by head-to-head confrontation???but he is also the man with the most to lose as the campaign begins. If he appears to be too evasive or too extreme, he runs the real risk of making American voters ask the basic question in the election of 1976: Is this man really strong and trustworthy enough to be put in the White House...
...that is not exactly what Moscow was bargaining for when it embarked on its historic accommodation with the West. Thus, while the Communist regimes negotiate new deals on the trade and technology that they need so badly, they are also cranking up a noisy new era of ideological confrontation???one that may force some short-term reappraisals in the West on the depth and meaning of détente...
...became the custodial power of the Arab world, the Soviet Union found that it could not control events. While the Soviets had every reason to welcome turbulence in the area, they could not restrain their clients from provoking an explosion that eventually threatened a direct Russian-U.S. military confrontation???which might well have occurred if the tide of battle three weeks ago had flowed differently and Israel had been faced with extinction...
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