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...Reagan Administration hoped to break the impasse by abandoning plans to replace the Pershing IAs with more up-to-date launchers. But last week Soviet officials declared this solution unacceptable. The Soviets have also spurned an offer for "accelerated obsolescence" of the Pershing IAs that would allow them to remain in West Germany until 1992, when an accord would go into effect. In a significant concession, Washington also agreed to destroy its ground-based cruise missiles in West Germany rather than convert them to sea- launched weapons stationed in the Atlantic Ocean...
...Aspin replied sharply that this detail had not been classified and that Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole had also mentioned it. Moreover, both Aspin and Dole had been briefed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who made no claim that the date of the first sailing was classified...
When Sandy Bakalar arranged a date for Dukakis with her friend Katharine Dickson, she felt compelled to explain, "She's Jewish, divorced and has a son by her first marriage." The two clicked immediately. "I found him very sexually attractive," Kitty Dukakis laughs. "People don't think of Michael that way. That's why it's fun to talk about it." Friends say Dukakis' parents were initially resistant to the match, and suggest that his marriage to Kitty in 1963 may have marked his true break with his Greek immigrant roots...
...reflagging plans failed to muster enough votes to call for a 90-day delay in the operation. In the House, tempers flared over a remark by Congressman Les Aspin that the first U.S.-escorted convoy would sail July 22. Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, revealed the date after attending an Administration briefing. Republican Minority Leader Robert Michel accused Democrat Aspin of "unforgivable" behavior, but Aspin pointed out, correctly, that Republican Senator Robert Dole had also disclosed the date to reporters...
Partly it is a matter of emotional scale. This is not a movie of halfway measures. The wicked are irredeemably wicked, the good unalterably good. No one is permitted to slip into anything a little more comfortable and up to date, like ambiguity or absurdism. And no one is permitted to loiter palely among his half-formed thoughts...