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Offensive Line: If half a running back's success is due to the offensive line, this group can gloat. Brian Keys' great year is due, in large part, to this unit, one of the bulkiest in the Ivy League...
Rowers, like practicioners of martial arts, live by strict rules of conduct. If you win, you are allowed to gloat. If you lose, you are not allowed to show your face...
Even as it prepared to welcome the Soviet leader, the Reagan Administration could not resist the temptation to occasionally gloat over Moscow's apparent capitulation in the face of American steadfastness. Perle has been beaming with the pride of paternity and enjoying the last laugh. The Administration has convinced itself, and now wants to convince everyone else, that the INF treaty is not just an unprecedented accomplishment by the superpowers acting in concert -- the elimination of an entire class of modern weaponry -- but an unprecedented triumph of American persistence over Soviet intransigence. As Kenneth Adelman, the Perle ally...
...what is Gorbachev really hawking? Many Americans gloat that INF will force the Soviets to destroy more missiles than we will. But these observers fail to see the treaty's strategic and political significance. The INF treaty is not the bargain it seems because an increasingly denuclearized Europe favors the Soviet advantage in conventional weapons--allowing the Kremlin to use its military superiority to threaten the West in a crisis. The removal of the Pershings will breed NATO infighting over who will bear a heavier defense burden and may portend an eventual American pullout from Western Europe...
More important, there were unexpected Soviet failures to gloat over. An SS-N-8 missile, launched two weeks ago from a submarine in the Barents Sea and aimed at the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Siberia, went astray and, in an obvious malfunctioning of both its guidance and selfdestruct systems, landed more than 1,500 miles off course, most probably in northeastern China. The Soviets insisted the missile had landed in their own territory...