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...week for the deportation from Hong Kong -- by force, if necessary -- of all Vietnamese boat people who do not qualify as political refugees. Of the 55,000 Vietnamese migrants languishing in detention camps, as many as 52,000 face expulsion over the next four years. The accord follows a pact signed last Oct. 29, in which Hanoi agreed to accept any boat people who arrived in the crown colony after that date...
...this is happening, of course, because the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact no longer exist. In place of the devil we knew is a threat represented on the briefers' charts by an eerie phrase: THE UNKNOWN AND THE UNCERTAIN. Instead of preparing to fight World War III, the Pentagon is planning to deal with what the charts call MRCS, or major regional conflicts. The National Security Agency, which eavesdrops on real and potential enemies around the world, is retiring Russian speakers to make room for specialists in Farsi and Swahili. One of the few categories of procurement that...
...should wait by the mailbox. But American industries and individuals do stand to gain materially from a successful Uruguay Round. The pact, as it stands, contemplates a one-third drop in average tariffs and safeguards against hidden export subsidies. It would also provide a stronger forum for settling trade disputes amicably than unilateral reprisals, such as the $1 billion in new tariffs on European goods that the U.S. threatened last week in retaliation for E.C. subsidies on oilseeds like soybeans...
...Jimmy Carter criticized detente and claimed he would drive harder bargains with Leonid Brezhnev than Gerald Ford had done. Ronald Reagan, who was contesting the Republican nomination, said much the same thing, only more vociferously. Going into a defensive crouch, Ford passed up a chance for a strategic-arms pact that year and may have cost himself the election...
Four years later, the Reagan campaign made devastating use of a photograph of Carter embracing Brezhnev at the summit meeting where the arms pact was finally signed, adding a caption, YOU, TOO, CAN KISS OFF CARTER. The voters obliged...