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...three years that the Reagan Administration was actively engaged in the conduct of strategic arms control, TIME Diplomatic Correspondent Strobe Talbott chronicled the intense infighting on the American side and the frequently acrimonious negotiations in Geneva. In the following account, he has assembled the hitherto untold story of a divided Government at work, of U.S. officials battling one another over turf, military strategy and political philosophy, even as they
...Allies had regained a great deal since the darkest days of 1941 and early 1942, when the Germans' panzer divisions swept to within 40 miles of Moscow and their Japanese allies struck at Pearl Harbor, the Philippines, Malaya. The hitherto invincible Japanese navy had been checked at the Battle of Midway in June 1942, the Soviets held fast at Stalingrad, and the Anglo-American invasion of North Africa that autumn inspired Churchill to say that although victory there might not be the beginning of the end, it was perhaps "the end of the beginning...
...reported that "some one disfigured the Chapel and the statue by painting in large letters on them the class name of '87." The account continues, "We know that it is a human failing to encourage anything, however silly, that is done in defiance of authority; but Harvard men have hitherto been free from this failing in its extreme form. This last performance, however, equals the best feats of silliness on record...
...without information. It has no information of its own; it follows, then, that it must rely on others to manufacture the stuff. The Government is the great smithy of information. Appreciating this, Reagan's men opened the doors to the workshop and escorted reporters inside in a way hitherto unknown in Washington. They literally told them everything. For the press, always the outsider, always operating on suspicion and guesswork and animosity, it was a dream come true. It had never before had sources like this. And, of course, the press could not risk losing these sources by offending them...
...anthropomorphic animals give us a brief glimpse of their hitherto secret lives, revealing their sorrows and triumphs, fears and celebrations; all of this is brought together in a well-choreographed flurry of dance and music, with all the lyrics being taken from, or suggested by, the original published and unpublished works of T.S. Eliot...