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...first hint that the game might be changing came in 1985, when the Soviets tipped their hand on two critical points. One was the status of SS-20s in Soviet Asia. The U.S. had been insisting that the zero option must be "global in scope": it must eliminate SS-20s in Asia too, since they are mobile weapons that in a crisis could be moved to threaten Europe. In May 1985, Gorbachev publicly suggested that his government would be willing to freeze its SS-20 forces east of the Ural Mountains. Shortly afterward the Soviet delegation in Geneva tabled...
...part of our politics: his 54% approval rating in the U.S. Gallup poll is higher than that of most American officials. In the secret files that are being sent to the President by his experts, Gorbachev is viewed as ready to deal if he gets an offer. Should Reagan hint that he could ease up on SDI, the Soviet Chairman might be willing to climb into blue jeans (well, maybe some corduroys) and fly to the California ranch for a fireside discussion on the next step in reducing nuclear missiles...
Even in those early days, signs might have pointed an expert on alcoholism toward my growing problem. One hint was my immediate tendency to drink to unconsciousness. At parties, I would often fall asleep in mid-hullabaloo on the couch. That drew plenty of jokes at the time. Only much later did I recognize that I had been passing out. Another signal was an initial, abnormally high tolerance for alcohol, at least until the passing-out stage. I thought I could hold my liquor pretty well. Now I think it means that my body was being less dutiful than most...
Kennedy has not given any hint whether he would uphold or reverse the decision if given the chance (which is certain to come: Roe was reaffirmed in 1986 by only 5 to 4, with Powell casting the deciding vote). Stanford Law Professor Jack Friedenthal predicts, "He would start with the fact that it has been decided. I strongly suspect he would never have voted for it in the first place, but part of judicial restraint is the question of whether a person is going to reverse a Supreme Court decision that is now part of the fabric of society." Even...
This source, whose name I cannot reveal (but let me give you a hint: be's the Yale Provost), was the one who turned me on to the fact that Serge Lang had been instrumental in founding the dating service on which Douglas Ginsberg worked, but was brutally fired from after he was caught following clients out on dates and peeping in their windows once they had gone to bed with their dates...