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The ticklish drama could hardly have come at a more sensitive time for Soviet-American relations. Even as the controversy unfolded, Soviet officials were in Washington for talks that could pave the way for a second summit meeting between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev later this year. Those discussions went...
The ethnic activists and civil rights groups opposing Proposition 63 believe that arguments about the need for national unity are a thin veil for a nativist, xenophobic crusade. "We oppose it because it would breed intolerance, divisiveness and bigotry," says Jessica Fiske of the American Civil Liberties Union. Opponents fear...
The President argued against what he called the "emotional clamor for punitive sanctions." Such a "historic act of folly," he insisted, would wreck the economies of neighboring African nations, undermine the forces for reform in South Africa and endanger America's strategic interests. "Victims of an economic boycott of South...
France had already refused a U.S. request to permit the F-111s to fly over her territory before Walters met with President Francois Mitterrand and Prime Minister Jacques Chirac. An official French government statement later explained that Paris was fearful of intensifying "the chain of violence" by abetting the U.S...
"We must realize that fighting terrorism poses a problem of external defense, not only one of internal law-and-order. It is irrelevant to ask whether we endanger democracy if we fight terrorism with appropriate means. Second, our defense has to be collective, coordinated by all democratic countries. Third, we...