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...teens (a somewhat unrepresentative group, heavily sprinkled with students from two of Moscow's most prestigious high schools) offered fervent criticism of the U.S. for its arms policy and its stereotyped view of the Soviet Union and its people. At the same time, there were pleas for friendship and trust. Said one student who is about to go into the army: "I guarantee to you that I will not invade your country." While most expressed support for the Soviet presence in Afghanistan, one student admitted he would not want to fight there: "I'm ready to die for my homeland...
...call a kind of summit meeting with congressional leaders to discuss strategies for reducing the budget deficit. "I didn't get much of a response," Byrd reported. In fact, he got a vehement one: the President not only insisted on another increase in military spending and repeated his fervent opposition to any kind of tax increase, but called Byrd's arguments for a cut in defense outlays a "bunch of crap." In Wright's view, Reagan "was not familiar with the agenda. He read from three- by-five cards...
...lessons. Throughout this century, massive student rallies have often augured or advanced social and political change in China, ushering in new eras or helping set the country's political agenda. Indeed, the recent outpouring of unrest shares familiar themes with the outcries of earlier student generations: a fervent call for renewed national purpose and a noisy demand for domestic reform...
...potential casualty of the revelations last week is the goal that the bizarre scheme was intended to further: keeping alive the contra struggle, which after five years of stop-and-go funding has yet to seriously threaten the existence of the Sandinista regime in Nicaragua. The President's fervent support for the contra cause is the most visible manifestation of what has been called the Reagan Doctrine, America's attempt to counter the spread of Communism by fostering insurgencies to undermine Moscow-backed regimes. After a long struggle, Reagan squeezed out a narrow victory this May by persuading Congress...
...snafu was symbolic as well as substantive: it showed an Administration floundering and failing in its attempts to restore its credibility. In their efforts to explain and justify the secret U.S. sales of weapons and spare parts to Iran -- which shattered the entire foundation of the Administration's fervent public efforts to take a strong stand against terrorism -- Reagan and his aides last week seemed only to be erecting a Tower of Babel abuzz with conflicting and contradictory voices. Presidential confidants past and present got into a public squabble: former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, one of the architects...