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...likely to head any coalition. Although the Khmer Rouge slaughtered 40 of his relatives, Sihanouk, like the U.S., has given priority to getting the Vietnamese out of Phnom Penh, even if it means letting some Khmer Rouge back in. Also like the U.S., he is hoping it will be easier to neutralize the Khmer Rouge if some of them are running ministries rather than assassinating ministers...
...voters something more than the rhetoric of protest if they hope to build on their success. "Casting the protest vote is no longer enough," concedes Masao Kunihiro, a newly elected J.S.P. legislator. Like the Solidarity movement in Poland, the J.S.P. and its allies may discover that it is far easier to belittle the old than construct something new. The Socialists are already having trouble rallying opposition parties behind a single agenda. The J.S.P., for instance, stands alone in calling for an unarmed, neutral Japan and opposing both the U.S.-Japan Security Treaty and Japan's Self Defense Force...
Doveryai no proveryai, or "Trust but verify," was a favorite Reagan Administration phrase in the arms-control lexicon, but it is easier said than done. While nobody seriously proposes signing agreements that can be readily violated, opinions abound on what constitutes adequate proof that the other side is not cheating...
...essay on a day in the life of the President, she had no idea that George Bush would be facing a foreign policy crisis over Panama. Busy as he was, the President still went out of his way to ask, "How can I help make your job easier today?" Chimed in White House photographer David Valdez: "Just pretend she isn't here...
People respond to incentives. Reward them for producing the most possible shoes, and they will produce a huge number of identical small shoes -- identical, because it's easier; small, because they can get more shoes out of a given supply of leather. The only way to produce exactly the shoes people want, or close to it, is to place the order through the free market...