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...would be a mistake, however, to conclude that the Kremlin's many frustrations will make either its present or its future leaders any easier for the U.S. to deal with. The effect could be exactly the opposite. In any case, the U.S. has little leverage that it can exert. Speaking of the Soviet leadership jockeying, Helmut Sonnenfeldt, a Kremlinologist at Washington's Brookings Institution, says bluntly, "There is nothing the U.S. can do about this...
...precise legislative plans will not become clear until his State of the Union message, scheduled for Feb. 6. But the broad outlines of his second-term agenda are already well known. His goals will be far harder to achieve than those pursued in the first term. It is easier to persuade Congress to cut taxes, as he did in 1981, than it is to reform the tax system, as he will try to do this year or next. It is easier to cut back programs for the poor than to whack entitlements for the middle class, which by and large...
...narrative gifts of Chuck Berry, the honesty of a Hank Williams and the rave-up musical skills of a perfesser in a Saturday night juke joint. The guys in Creedence were good, but they were outclassed; almost anyone would be, but that did not make the situation any easier. The group disbanded in 1972, and four years and two halfheartedly received solo albums later, Fogerty shut himself down. He did not stop making music--"Once you stop the next step is backward, and you're going to end up in a bar some place in Albuquerque"--but he did something...
...McLaughlin points out, it could also mean an easier time during the Crimson's Run for the Ivy Roses...
With full-scale strategic defenses removed from the equation, it was easier to set limits on the number of weapons each side would need to assure destruction of the other and thus maintain deterrence. The result was the SALT I interim agreement on offensive weapons, which expired almost eight years ago, and the SALT II treaty of 1979, which was never ratified. The two sides have continued to abide by the main provisions of those accords informally while they have sought new agreements...