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...Gorbachev, tear down this wall!" The demand was made by Ronald Reagan as the then President addressed West Germans at Berlin's Brandenburg Gate on June 12, 1987. With Gorbachev's acquiescence, if not encouragement, the deed was done. Last week Reagan stood beside a three-ton chunk of the Berlin Wall, 9 1/2 ft. tall and 3 1/2 ft. wide, and called it "an unnatural, ugly, unwelcome, undeniable symbol of the oppression of communism...
Ever since George Bush moved into the White House, he has wanted to put his own stamp on the strategic-arms-reduction process that Ronald Reagan presided over with such dramatic flair. Last month the President finally found a way. In a secret letter to Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, he proposed nothing less than the complete elimination of the most dangerous weapons in U.S. and Soviet arsenals: land-based missiles topped with multiple warheads, or MIRVs. As a first step, Bush suggested, the two superpowers should agree to ban land- based mobile missiles with MIRVs...
...surprisingly, Gorbachev had problems with the proposal. In a letter hand delivered to Bush during Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze's visit to Washington, Gorbachev replied that any MIRV ban should not be limited to land-based weapons, where the Soviets have a heavy numerical advantage, but should also include those aboard submarines, where the U.S. has the edge...
...bridge to the right, voice of the right, pacifier of the right. In the latter role he has already been criticized by the National Review and conservative columnist Eric Breindel. It is a high-risk position, since reflex anticommunism is not the right-wing glue it was before Mikhail Gorbachev. Quayle has treated changes in the Soviet Union as suspect, while saying he does not differ from the President (the refrain against which all Vice Presidents must play their own tunes). Quayle is loyal to individuals, as he showed in the Senate in 1986 by his frantic efforts...
...short term, however, competition promises to be education's biggest problem. As Gorbachev tries to coax results from perestroika, and the East European nations struggle to revitalize their economies after 40 years of Communist rule, schools will have to vie with industry and agriculture for scarce resources. But for the moment at least, teachers and pupils seem thrilled by their new freedom to think, speak and seek the truth now that the ghosts of Marx and Lenin have been expelled from the classroom...