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Kissinger posed a series of pointed questions: "What do those who speak so glibly about one-way streets or preemptive concessions propose concretely that this country do? What risks would they run? What precise changes in our defense posture, what level of expenditure over what period of time do they advocate? How concretely do they suggest managing the U.S.-Soviet relationship in an era of strategic equality...
...amount of information flowing in and out of the average home as people use their phone lines more and more to gain access to everything from their checking accounts to computers and consumer services. A single glass fiber can now be made to carry up to 672 one-way conversations simultaneously. This means that eight fibers, a bundle no thicker than a pencil lead, could do the job now being done by a 3-in. telephone cable...
...issues, Jackson has shrewdly and forcefully blended a conservatism on foreign affairs and many social questions with a traditional liberalism on economics and civil rights. The issue of detente is almost his own. He started complaining about a one-way street long before the phrase was picked up by his Democratic rivals. He combines a skepticism about the Soviet Union with pleas for an old-fashioned patriotism and an end to national self-deprecation. He declares: "We have got to put a stop to constantly turning the other cheek and letting the other side kick us all over...
...One-Way Mirror. When each lab representative showed up at the clinic to make his pitch, the conversation was jotted down by a secretary; some of the sessions were photographed through a one-way mirror. The material was turned over to the U.S. Justice Department for possible prosecution. Later investigation disclosed other kinds of fraud besides bribery. Some labs were in the habit of offering two sets of prices for tests, one for private patients and a higher one for Medicaid recipients. An examination of 20,000 laboratory billings showed that the median overcharge for Medicaid patients...
More and more, Henry Kissinger is becoming a domestic political issue. Ronald Reagan gets consistent applause when he charges that Kissinger's policy of detente is a "one-way street." While being attacked from the right, he is also getting hell from the left, either because liberals have abandoned their traditional support of detente or because they oppose his interventionist views in Angola and elsewhere. He is thus in the unusual position of being accused of being too dovish and too hawkish...