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...second point about reverse discrimination Louis makes is that those who insist that remedies for past discrimination not injure the rights of whites confuse the "setting up [of] goals and timetables with quotas, presumably preferring that Blacks simply lodge individual lawsuits each time they find themselves victims of racial discrimination." In this assertion, Louis is using the "straw man" technique in double measure. First, no serious participant in the debate objects to increased efforts to recruit more minority applicants. Goals and timetables are acceptable, and even laudable, as long as no applicant's credentials are given special weight because...
Reagan's advisers insist that he never bothered to discuss with them whether he should run; their talks involved only strategy and timing. The President debated his choice only with his wife Nancy. The First Lady has become much more comfortable with her own role in the public eye than she was at first. Though she is still haunted by the assassination attempt against her husband, she encouraged him to do what he wanted...
...foreign policy, Reagan might actually be less hard-line in a second term, for the same reason that he would be very tough on domestic issues: it would be his final chance to leave his mark on history. Aides insist that he wants to be remembered as the President who achieved a major, verifiable weapons-reduction deal with the Soviets, and would press hard for one. That assumes that Moscow would cooperate, a very large assumption...
...tone ("My whole life was shallow"), such meekness will probably go for naught. Barnes volunteered to talk for no more than the assurance that his cooperation would be brought to the attention of the Government. U.S. prosecutors, who last week produced a 19-page memo detailing Barnes' cooperation, insist that the one man who has the power to grant clemency, the President, is hardly likely to give even as much as a chance for parole. Asks Assistant U.S. Attor-Tney Philip Douglas: "What President wants to go on record as 1 having reduced the sentence of Nicky Barnes...
...Soviets continued to insist that they will not return to the table in Geneva until the new Pershing II and cruise missiles that were installed in West Germany, Britain and Italy last year are removed. To underscore Soviet concern about the new weapons, the official newspaper of the Soviet Defense Ministry, Krasnaya Zvezda, reported last week that "fierce, mighty weapons"-presumably, short-range SS-21, SS-22 and SS-23 missiles-had already been installed in East Germany and Czechoslovakia to counter the NATO threat. A Soviet officer quoted in the newspaper explained that "we must be prepared to give...