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Central America produced some relatively good news. El Salvador's President Jose Napoleon Duarte won an election that was viewed from the outset as difficult even to hold, let alone conduct fairly. He perhaps endangered his own life by making a peace offering to the guerrillas. The direction of events was murkier in Nicaragua. The U.S. stirred up a storm among Congressmen and the nation's allies when it came out that the CIA had directed the mining of Nicaraguan harbors in order to discourage Soviet and Cuban arms shipments. Reagan encountered further trouble over U.S. funding of the contra...
...combat troops are to be dispatched, "we should do so wholeheartedly, and with the clear intention of winning." By contrast, from the outset in Viet Nam, U.S. military strategy was strictly defensive...
...must be automatically flawed. In fact the Soviet Union, like the U.S., will naturally accept only proposals it considers to be in its own self-interest. The open contempt for arms control expressed by some members of the Reagan circle and the unrealistic proposals for cuts offered at the outset of the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START) have obscured a central fact: the major source of the problem lies in the Soviets' own aggressive nuclear buildup and their excessive view of what they require for their own security. Thus even a "reformed" Reagan Administration with a more tolerant approach...
...American President, no matter how popular, can totally control his agenda. At the outset of Reagan's first term, he dazzled friend and foe alike with his mastery of Congress. Willing to try Reagan's supply-side economics, Congress approved his $750 billion, five-year tax cut, which included $150 billion in cuts requested by special-interest groups...
...outset, director Baker craftily disguises the plot beneath the cloak of family tragedy. Jennifer (Meg Tilly), a small town ballerina, has gone to study dance in New York, where she meets her soon-to-be boyfriend Stuart (Tim Matheson). Stuart is a cultured yuppie finishing up his medical residency. Yet no sooner do Jennifer and Stuart become involved, than Jennifer's mother discovers the romance, and during an accusatory phone call, shoots herself. Jennifer and Stuart race home to the rural Midwestern town where Jennifer's mother lives, and the plot quickly takes on a surreal glaze...