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...extension was an understandable compromise between domestic political pressure from the farmlands and foreign policy concerns. Though President Reagan had lifted in April 1981 the partial embargo on grain sales that had been initiated by Jimmy Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he also abruptly cut off talks for a new, multiyear grain deal with Moscow after martial law was imposed in Poland last December. Since the military crackdown in Poland is still in effect and European allies are squawking about U.S. opposition to helping build the Soviet natural gas pipeline, Reagan could hardly strike a long-term grain...
Trend setters Comfortable with the opposite sex and partial to high fashion, the ranking socialities insist on an appearance of casualness while they grind it out just like the rest of them. They shake hands and peck cheeks with studied grace. Sometimes sleep together, and always talk about it within earshot of their elders...
...budget, with the largest deficits, in American history. Then he marches up to the Capitol to stage a rally demanding a constitutional amendment that would require a balanced federal budget. "I don't feel self-conscious at all," Reagan tells a press conference. He argues the (at least partial) truths that he inherited ever growing commitments from Presidents before him and that a big tax cut might be a profitable jolt for the economy. Congress performs its own impressive feats of dissociation. The polls consistently show that between 70% and 75% of Americans favor a balanced-budget amendment...
...signal concerning arms control. President Reagan and his National Security Council decided against resuming negotiations, suspended for almost two years, toward a comprehensive ban on testing nuclear warheads. The Administration said that it is not opposed to the test ban, and only wants first to make compliance with earlier, partial bans more "verifiable" technically. In fact, the most plausible motive for the decision is simply that the Administration wants to keep on testing America's nuclear warheads...
With elements of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night set to Mendelssohn and against a backdrop of nature photography, this lush film marks a partial return to Allen's earlier style. Working again in comedy, the veteran filmmaker has abandoned the subtlety of his more recent creations, but if the majority of the humor is broad, it is also notably less bitter than in his earlier movies. The impotent, unattractive hero and his bevy of shallow beauties are gone...