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Still, President Reagan appeared to welcome the Soviet proposal, sounding even a bit more optimistic than some of his advisers. "Everything they are saying represents a change in their position," the President declared expansively to reporters at an impromptu press conference held in a soap factory near Cincinnati, where he had flown last week as part of his lonely crusade on behalf of tax reform. The President, in fact, has seemed somewhat more detached than usual from the details of foreign policy while making repeated forays on behalf of a tax plan most people appear to have forgotten. He also...
...major speech to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia and an interview with TIME, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger stressed that Moscow is "very far along" in missile-defense R. and D. President Reagan, in impromptu comments to the press on Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev's criticism of SDI, ventured the surprising estimate that "the Soviet Union is about ten years ahead of us in developing a defensive system." To buttress such arguments, the Pentagon and State Department jointly released a 27-page pamphlet summing up what Washington knows about the Kremlin's version of Star Wars. Briefing journalists...
Elation soon gave way to a more somber spirit. Realizing that they were looking at the scene of one of history's great tragedies, Ballard organized an impromptu memorial service for the dead. Said he: "To finally put those souls to rest was a very nice feeling...
...close of their conversations in the White House last week, President Reagan and his guest, King Hussein of Jordan, stepped out into the Rose Garden for an impromptu press conference. The President wished Hussein well in his search for a Middle East peace settlement. The King responded with words that amounted more to a policy statement than a formal farewell. As the result of his recent talks with Yasser Arafat, the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Hussein declared, "we are willing to negotiate, within the context of an international conference, a peaceful settlement on the basis of the pertinent...
...spring, they amused baseball funs all over the East by cheering on Maspons and Musselman. During a rainstorm between games at Dartmouth, when Harvard desperately needed a win to tie for the league title, Doyle and Krusz broke up the tension with an impromptu wiffle ball game on the field. "We go in for rain delays," Doyle explains...