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...speech. So were most of those on the the political and policy staffs in the West Wing. The paragraphs in Reagan's speech on new defensive technologies were drafted separately and then blended into the speech by the President. The overriding factor in the timing and handling of the issue???one that discomfited a few senior aides?seemed to be the desire for intensive political impact rather than a careful consideration of the subject. The most important ramifications that the Administration has yet to address fully may be geopolitical rather than technological. What course will the Soviets take in response...
Until now, the issue??of what our interrogators did to the al-Qaeda operatives in their custody was as remote as the secret prisons in which they have been kept: a list of techniques with odd names like "water boarding" to match up with grainy head shots above long Arabic names. But we learned from President Bush last week that the CIA's 14 high-value detainees have been moved to a U.S. base, the Cuban outpost of Guantánamo Bay. And because they will face some kind of trial, the issue of torture moves closer to our political shore...
...If there is an issue??on which more voters are in agreement than stopping illegal immigration, what is it? My sympathy is with the people trying to do something. The government's efforts are glacial and overwhelmingly insufficient. Let's go to the next level: close the doors, and put up a NO VACANCY sign...
...Caterpillar has laid off 8,000 employees, and joblessness has hovered at 16%, the highest rate since the Depression. So for the House Republican leader, who shepherded President Reagan's budget and tax cuts through Congress, the overriding national issue of the 1982 campaign, the economy, was a local issue???and a survival issue. Urged the Democrats: "Add Bob Michel to the unemployed list...
...Rights Amendment. She has also directed campaigns that prevented ten states that had passed the ERA from rescinding their positions, and is organizing grass-roots efforts in the down-to-the-wire fight to pass the amendment in three more states. Says Smeal: "The ERA is primarily an economic issue???of security for the homemaker and jobs for the average woman...