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...Democrats will be in a better position to win in 1984--and to govern thereafter--if they address other foreign policy concerns in addition to endorsing a nuclear freeze and seeking to improve the quality of U.S. Soviet relations. Examples include human rights. Latin America. Third World issues, international economic woes, environmental and energy concerns and alliance relations. Ronald Reagan's principal foreign policy problem has been his single-minded reliance on anti-Soviet bluster; instead, a policy of constructively engaging the Soviets by paying attention to issues like human rights and Third World concerns would force the USSR...
...controversy over whether arms control was a boon or a trap-and some ill-considered comments on the feasibility of nuclear war-left defense policy increasingly at the mercy of the exploding public concern about the dangers of nuclear war. No democratic leader can govern any longer without demonstrating his devotion to peace. The Reagan Administration soon learned that the assault on what it called the "fatally flawed" SALT II treaty made for better campaign rhetoric than foreign policy. It compromised on the strange course of observing but not ratifying SALT II. The Administration has proclaimed its devotion to arms...
Hawke, meanwhile, followed the results from a hotel suite in Canberra, from which he could see, less than half a mile away, the white-painted Parliament House where he will now govern. Shortly after midnight, he drove to the huge National Exhibition Center to greet 1,500 cheering well-wishers. When he entered, champagne corks popped, hundreds chanted "We want Bob!" and tables and chairs were knocked over as the throng mobbed its next Prime Minister. Hawke celebrated his remarkable victory with measured and modest optimism. "This is going to be a government for all Australians," he declared. "We have...
...revealed him as Australia's favorite choice for Prime Minister. When at last he did join Parliament two years ago, he was, he said, determined not to "warm my bum on a back bench." Hawke's subsequent lackluster performance has cast some doubts on his ability to govern. But after Labor suffered a demoralizing defeat in a by-election last December, the party decided to jettison Bill Hayden, 50, its colorless longtime leader, and gamble on Hawke's double-edged magnetism...
...says, "and you can quote me." The President is far more politic but knows that his zealous conservative constituents need him more than he needs them. The 1982 elections, in which the National Conservative Political Action Committee spent $4.5 million but had scant influence, produced a moderate Congress. To govern, Reagan must deal with Congress, not with the right. "We're not such a great majority in the world," he told the conservative magazine Human Events last week, "that we can be giving ourselves political saliva tests all the time...