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...Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and U.S. insecurity induced by the hostage crisis--had chilled superpower relations. But the Administration's earlier stridency on E1 Salvador and apocalyptic pronouncements on the Soviets and nuclear war helped, if anything, to sour enthusiasm for its massive military shopping spree, and the apparent drift towards East-West confrontation of some kind was sufficiently unnerving to provoke the first large scale American public discussion of nuclear war in two decades. For whatever reason--and certainly the reliably grim economic news is a prime factor the support for increased defense spending which arose in the late...
...intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe and his Caribbean Basin Initiative of increased aid, trade and investment have won applause from friendly nations. But even these initiatives came late, in response to the pressure of events, and they are far from outweighing the situations that have been allowed to drift. Part of the problem is Haig. The Secretary has always swung between a cool, unflappable demeanor and irascible outbursts. Strangely, even as he has overcome most of his rivals for pre-eminence in foreign policy, the brittle side of his character has become more visible. Stories abound in Washington about...
comes up that does not demand at least an effort to read the future. How long will the recession go on? Whither Central America? Will the energy crisis ever come back? Will space become a theater for military action? Society flourishes or languishes by guessing the drift of things. If it had guessed right about consumer trends a few years ago, the auto industry might not be in such a sorry state. But in that industry, as Chrysler's chairman Lee la-cocca put it, "you make a decision and then wait three years to get the stuff kicked...
...Exchequer in postwar Labor governments, and had gone on to four years of distinguished duty as president of the Brussels-based European Commission, the executive arm of the ten-nation European Community. But from his post in Brussels he gradually became disenchanted with Labor's inexorable leftward drift. In 1979 he put forward the heretical proposition that Britain needed a new party of the center, occupying the middle ground between Labor and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's right-leaning Conservative government. Home again last year, he joined other like-minded Laborites, including former Foreign Secretary David Owen...
...Hundreds of angry but eloquent students participated in a campaign last month to reverse the University's drift away from a ban on investments making loans to the government of South Africa. Harvard listened and reaffirmed its original stand...