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Arms Control. At the Reykjavik summit in 1986, Reagan stunned many of his advisers and allies by embracing the elimination of all nuclear weapons, a move that would expose Western Europe to the Warsaw Pact's overwhelming numerical superiority in troops and tanks. Bush has expressed far less enthusiasm for nuclear-weapons reductions and has suggested they may have to be conditioned on cuts in Soviet conventional forces...
...Budget. Reagan relished sending Congress what one senior aide called "a go-to-hell budget" laden with domestic-spending cuts patently unacceptable to the Democrats. Bush declared at his Inauguration, "The American people didn't send us here to bicker." He drew up a less contentious proposal and, by managing to persuade congressional leaders to accept his overly optimistic economic assumptions, struck a deal by mid-April...
Chief of staff John Sununu adds, "We're less interested in looking good than in getting results . . . and we're willing to work very closely with Congress to get results." That is where Bush uses tools Reagan never had: energy, intense interest and background in the details of policy and long- standing personal ties to lawmakers and other Washington insiders...
...many officials disagreed with Deng's directive to smash the protest that he was forced to rescind it. Some 100 staff members at the People's Daily signed a letter to their bosses challenging the paper's harsh editorial. Within the party, opposition to a crackdown was no less vehement. "The real dissatisfaction of the cadres was made known to Li shortly after the editorial was presented," said a knowledgeable Communist Party member. "They feared that if the leaders suppressed the demonstration and blood was shed, it would be like a big fire that would burn not only in Beijing...
...useful fusion energy at low temperatures could change the world forever by providing a source of virtually limitless power. Moreover, the process would generate no pollutants -- not even carbon dioxide, which many scientists fear is warming the globe in a greenhouse effect. A fusion plant would give off much less radiation than do conventional nuclear-power generators. And it would essentially run on seawater. Any scientist who managed to harness fusion would be guaranteed a Nobel Prize for Physics (and probably Peace as well), untold riches from licensing the process and a place in history alongside Einstein and slightly above...