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...mind our emulating the Israelis. But America is not under enough of a threat for us to do that. We're not a small country with powerful enemies just over the border. So our capacity consistently to carry out pre-emption and retaliation is certainly not assured. Democracies forgo certain options by the nature of their societies and the whole set of ideals they represent...
PRESIDENT REAGAN'S announcement that during his trip to West Germany next month he will visit a German World War II cemetery and forgo a visit to the Dachau concentration camp was particularly outrageous coming as it did last week, the 40th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi death camps. While Reagan's aides are reconsidering the president's widely-attacked travel plans, thousands of ceremonies nationwide will commemorate the end of the nightmare that exterminated, among others, 70 percent of European Jews, and one-third of the world's total Jewish population...
...Wars has been clouded by the infighting and whispering campaigns that have engulfed Foggy Bottom and the Pentagon since Gromyko and Schultz announced they would meet last September. Is it supposed to protect cities--or just missile silos? Is it a bargaining chip--or will the Administration agree to forgo the multi-billion project at the bargaining table...
...principal effort is going to be in the area of getting costs down," he told the Washington Post last week. He would have the Pentagon forgo the $40 billion increase it wants next year, freezing the budget at its current level. He goes further than most Democrats have even considered suggesting. But the military, said Goldwater, "can live with it. They won't be happy. Neither will the Post Office be happy with the same money they got. Neither will my secretary be happy with the same money she got. But you can't keep pumping out money...
What kinds of specific offers might the U.S. make for openers? Shultz could agree to a slowdown in the deployment of cruise missiles or a moratorium on testing antisatellite devices. The hard-liners in Washington, unwilling to forgo the U.S. buildup in either area, would merely suggest that the Soviets send monitors to watch U.S. underground nuclear tests and that an American counterpart go to the U.S.S.R...