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For their separate political reasons, the principal moderates and hard-liners agree that no arms-control czar should be appointed. But McFarlane talked last week of finding someone "to advise, to troubleshoot and to be a designated hitter that could assure momentum is sustained." The White House favorite for the...
Before any such grand encounter can occur, though, Reagan must involve himself in the arms-control process more directly. Specifically, he will have to give Shultz and the moderates his unequivocal endorsement, or make it clear to the hard-liners that his commitment to negotiating nuclear arms reductions is genuine...
As on most other arms-control issues, the Administration is sharply divided over what these reports should say. Hardliners, whose most determined and skillful representative is Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, are pressing for the most damning, categorical interpretation of any available evidence that the Soviets have flagrantly violated...
Throughout his career, Arafat has made P.L.O. unity his paramount concern. The result, more often than not, has been paralysis. While hard-liners grew angry with Arafat's reluctance to embrace only violence, moderates became frustrated by their leader's failure to pursue diplomatic initiatives that might lead...
Externally, Revel argues, pluralism engenders a far more fatal tendency: "Democracy tends to ignore, even deny, threats to its existence because it loathes doing what is needed to counter them." In other words, democracy instinctively resorts to appeasement, usually justified as the encouragement of totalitarian "moderates" over "hard-liners." A...