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The Administration's internal split on arms control remains so deep that significant progress may not be possible despite the President's accommodating intentions. On one side are the skeptics: Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, Perle and other Pentagon subordinates. Arrayed against them are the arms-control moderates: Shultz...
*The Pentagon Bunker. The lack of expertise in the government is complicated by the fact that the official with the most knowledge about nukes is dead set against limiting them. Richard Perle, the assistant secretary of defense for international security policy, is more than capable of waging four more years...
Thus, as the Nicaraguan debate continues to percolate within the Administration, the U.S. tends to pick and choose among different reasons for confronting the Sandinistas. Among the hardliners, the latest outcry may have the ultimate aim of restoring shattered congressional support for the rebellious contras. That prospect, however, has grown...
Bhindranwale, by advocating the violent elimination of innocent Hindu civilians and of police and government officials, both Hindu and Sikh, who tried to maintain order, forged together a group of Sikh extremists composed largely of the unemployed, youths and criminals. He grasped initiative away from the collaborating Akali Dal, a...
As young Sikh men start to rid themselves of the traditionally visible traits of their culture--uncut hair wrapped in turbans, unshaven beards, etc.--some of the older, more conservative Sikhs have expressed alarm at the threat to Sikh identity. It is this impulse that lends support to Sikh separatists...