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...opportunity to end the arms race. But where Gorbachev is bold, Bush is cautious to a fault. I wish he would agree that we have a lot to fear today, but not a Soviet Union prepared to negotiate. So I wish he'd press ahead. What we need is a 50% reduction in the ICBMs. We need a reduction in the conventional forces. We need a comprehensive test...
...prison door closing. Li Peng appeared on television for the first time since martial law was declared, receiving -- as if to underscore his legitimacy -- a covey of newly arrived ambassadors. The Premier declared that the soldiers would move into Beijing as soon as the city's residents understood the need to restore order. From all available signs, Deng Xiaoping had cast his lot with the hard- line faction headed by Li. The losers were a more reformist group led by party chief Zhao Ziyang. Diplomatic sources said that Zhao had been stripped of his power, although perhaps not his title...
...bull rider on first bounce, just as the bull has tossed him. Peters plays -- but you knew this, didn't you? -- a gorgeous, daffy bail jumper. She isn't really a villain, of course. Her dopey husband is involved with a crew of gun-fondling white supremacists, and they need to hide $250,000 in counterfeit bills, which he stows under the folded-up top of his pink 1959 Cadillac convertible...
...based in Los Angeles, Reingold enjoys peering ahead into the Pacific century. "Our main weakness in dealing with Japan is that we have not really understood it or had a coherent policy," he says. "We need to realize that its political economy is a type unto itself. It's not Keynesian or Marxist. It's Japanese...
Current majority leader Tom Foley's anticipated move to Speaker would satisfy the Democrats' need for an ethically pure successor. Squeaky clean and conciliatory, Foley could be to the Democrats what Jerry Ford was to the Republicans after Richard Nixon: a healing, avuncular presence and a guarantee that the congressional leadership would cease to be a staple on the nightly news. Despite some scurrilous efforts to spread rumors about him, Foley seems a shoo-in. "Only the Angel Gabriel could beat him," said one Congressman...