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...form makes this course seem unlikely. The third factor is Taiwan's continued refusal to negotiate better relations with the mainland. China's Vice Premier, Deng Xiaoping (Teng Hsiao-p'ing), has cited this hostile attitude as one that could cause Peking to take drastic action. Finally, if Taiwan were diplomatically isolated and torn internally over China's offer of a peaceful reunion, Peking might decide that invasion was a practical alternative for settling the issue. Given Taiwan's booming economy and its impressive armed forces, this last alternative seems remote...
...foreign affairs, the Thatcher emphasis was on continuity rather than drastic change. The Prime Minister received two visiting heads of government without missing a beat. Ireland's Prime Minister Jack Lynch, in London on private business, came in for a half-hour tête-à-tête to sample her views on the chronic issue of British policy in Ulster. Although Helmut Schmidt had offered to postpone a meeting that had been scheduled for last week with her predecessor James Callaghan, Thatcher insisted upon wining and dining the West German Chancellor...
...meeting of the Cabinet-level Special Coordination Committee in the windowless Situation Room in the basement of the White House. David Aaron suggested that the U.S. negotiating position include a proposal for an equal limit on the number of MlRVed ICBMS that both sides could deploy, plus a drastic reduction in the number of Soviet heavy missiles already deployed. The plan would have rolled back some Soviet programs and slowed down others, while leaving the American arsenal intact, although it would have been coupled with an offer to sacrifice some American weapons still on the drawing board. As Aaron later...
...planning emphasis from more factories and more workers to more efficient factories and more productivity per worker. Decentralizing the economy so that managers need not clear so many decisions with the sluggish Moscow bureaucracy will also be necessary. For the leaders of the rigid Soviet system, that kind of drastic reform will not be easy...
That leaves only drastic cuts in social and welfare programs to finance the tax-cuts--and here we come to an uncanny similarity between the position of Mrs. Thatcher and that of Gov. Edward J. King in Massachusetts--except that in Britain there will be no liberal state legislature to mitigate savage reductions in help for the elderly, poor, sick and disadvantaged...