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Moscow's reaction to the Senate vote was reasonably muted. Soviet media continued to describe the MX as a "first-strike missile." Not surprisingly, the official Soviet news agency TASS accused the Senate of "bowing to unprecedented pressure from the Reagan Administration and the U.S. military- industrial complex." The MX...
During a subsequent hour-long private chat between the two Presidents, their differences over Central America remained muted. Alfonsin repeated his belief in the need for a peaceful solution in the region, along the lines suggested by the so-called Contadora group of Latin American countries--Colombia, Mexico, Panama and...
Once again the sad music, followed by the ritual, seen before, only speeded up and muted this time. The surviving leaders seemed so impatient to bury the departed one that they were almost rude to his memory. They were even more impatient to name his successor. In particular, this successor...
"Listen, stop tanning yourself/ and talking about fishbelly white...Stop unfolding/ your eyes./ Your eyes are beautiful.../ Stop trimming your nose./ When you/ diminish/ your nose/ your songs/ become little/ tinny, muted/ and snub./ Stop bleaching/ your skin/ and talking/ about/ so much black/ is not beautiful..."
Presidents almost never talk openly about how it might be to face a nuclear salvo from the Soviet Union. Ronald Reagan did last week. "Think of it," he said in a low voice, seated in front of a wood fire in the calm of the Oval Office. "You're sitting...