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There was thus a certain irony when the sanctions announced by Reagan last week were so mild that they amounted to a gnat's bite. Even more than Carter's reprisals, the new sanctions were symbolic, not substantive; Reagan may have conveyed the Administration's moral outrage at the crackdown on freedom in Poland, but his measures will have almost no impact. And by acting without support from Western allies...
...year's attacks on world leaders came with almost seasonal regularity: before time had diminished the shock of one shooting, another occurred. First, on a mild spring afternoon in Washington, John Hinckley fired his pipsqueak's .22 at Ronald Reagan for reasons meaningful only to himself; then, in the sun of St. Peter's Square, Mehmet Ali Agca, forging a new category of hatefulness, gunned down Pope John Paul II; finally, during an autumn celebration of Egypt's military might, four Islamic fanatics ran from out of the orderly pomp toward President Anwar Sadat, grenades...
...other nations for decades when it is within our power to do something about the conditions, or at least within our power not to support the oppressors, says much for the underdeveloped soul of this country. All we can offer, too little and always too late, are the mild reforms, cough syrup for the patient with double pneumonia. In El Salvador that cough syrup has been "land reform," the supposed distribution of the country's acreage to the peasants who farm it. Rammed down the throats of the Duarte regime by American officials desperate for some improvements to point...
...unhinge our tender relations with mainland China. Candidate Reagan was a Taiwan booster. President Reagan may see it differently if Haig's entreaties are skillful. On the Middle East, Haig is trying to keep his Government, and others, from plunging recklessly after the Saudi peace plan; even a mild endorsement of that flawed proposal, he feels, would wreck the Camp David process and might damage all prospects for Middle East peace...
Prior to last week's summit, the Fahd plan had drawn favorable comment from Western Europe, mild encouragement from the Reagan Administration and qualified endorsement from Palestine Liberation Organization Leader Yasser Arafat, who called it a "good beginning." Two weeks ago, the plan was approved by the five Persian Gulf states that, along with the Saudis, constitute the newly formed Gulf Cooperation Council...