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...same time, Treasury Secretary Donald Regan has ordered his own review of the agency, which is part of his department. More than likely the inquiries will not solve a basic dilemma: How to guard a President as fully as possible in an open society? Says a longtime Secret Service official: "It may be unsolvable...
Happily, the remedy to his dilemma comes to Nam in a dream: a blue-eyed American sergeant breaks into a bucolic toy community and despoils the place. Animal figurines and little children drive out the invader. So inspired is Nam that he rushes out to the rifle range and knocks off four G.I. targets in a row. As schoolmates cheer, an instructor exclaims, "When you have enough hatred, you can hit them...
...Japanese auto question has become the sharpest economic dilemma for the young Administration. A committed free trader, Reagan has also promised trade relief to auto workers. Said he in a campaign stop in Detroit last September: "I think the Government has a role to convince the Japanese that the deluge of their cars into the U.S. must be slowed while our industry gets on its feet." But hin dering the availability of Japanese cars in the U.S. could result in substantially higher auto prices for American consumers and hurt the Administration's battle against inflation. The outcome...
...There are several issues here. One is a very urgent issue of release on debt servicing, and we have joined other nations in making a contribution to assist the Polish dilemma in this area. Beyond that, we are in negotiations which would meet the urgent humanitarian needs of the Polish people, as we have in the past. We think this is in our interests, and we think it is also a moral imperative...
Domestic Policy. At home, an avalanche of petrodollars is confronting the Saudis with a profound dilemma: how to preserve the country's Islamic identity and conservative values in the face of a headlong, frequently pell-mell rush of development. The men who face this problem are the members of the royal House of Saud, which has ruled the kingdom of Saudi Arabia since 1932 and which, perhaps like no other dynasty in the world, has turned the running of a country into a family business. All key decision-making positions are held by the royal family which consists...