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...charts (23 consecutive weeks on the New York Times list, ranked sixth last week), while Kushner has received a growing volume of mail and phone calls. The letter writers and callers-whether Jew, Catholic or Protestant-are people who have suffered some personal tragedy and found themselves questioning basic, long-held beliefs about the goodness or even the existence...
Judiciary Committee approval hinged on Chairman Strom Thurmond's willingness to give ground on his long-held segregationist views. Although the South Carolina Republican did not vote for the compromise, he decided not to fight it after long talks with fellow Senators and an unusual two-hour private meeting with Benjamin Hooks, executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Surmised Hooks: "In his own way, I think he doesn't want to be remembered as a bigot." In essence, the compromise devised by Senators Robert Dole, Edward Kennedy and Charles Mathias decreed that...
...retaliation for our conversation of a few hours ago-on Nixon's assumption that my faith made me unusually sensitive to pressures on Israel? Or was it the expression of a long-held belief? Almost certainly both. Nixon did not return to the subject; the relevant papers were prepared but never signed...
...timed and almost casual comments of President Ronald Reagan, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig about how NATO would use nuclear weapons in Europe, about how a "limited" nuclear war could be fought, were incendiary. Even though the remarks were only restatements of long-held...
...seize the opportunity. In.offering to drop plans to deploy U.S. intermediate-range missiles if the Soviets dismantle theirs, he tried, belatedly and for the first time, to allay Europe's roiling fears. He also sought to undercut Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev, who had skillfully exploited America's essential and long-held views on nuclear strategy to portray the Soviet Union as the only superpower devoted to the search for peace (see ESSAY). While Reagan's proposal was hailed by Europe's leaders, the reaction of the peace groups was ambivalent. They took credit for forcing the President...