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...will be signed. Asked about the significance of the summit's being held on the 46th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, Reagan recently said: "I thought to myself, wouldn't it be wonderful if Pearl Harbor day would become superseded by the day that we began the path to peace and safety in the world...
...president's remark may appear appropriate to the occasion. Comments like these, however, fuel idealistic expectations that will never be fulfilled. Sadly, arms control is but a tiny step on "the path to peace and safety." Reagan, who has repeatedly stressed his "realistic" outlook on the "Evil Empire" in the past, should of all people be aware of the limitations of arms control...
Although the apartment was just past Central Square in Cambridge, Natan Sharansky's thoughts were back in the East, where he said the Soviet Union is at a "historic crossroads" and that decisions made in the next several months will determine the path that country will follow...
Franklin Roosevelt labeled Dec. 7 as a "day which will live in infamy." Last week Ronald Reagan expressed the hope that it will soon be remembered not as the date in 1941 when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor but as the "day that we began the path to peace and safety in the world." After a week of bafflingly mixed signals from Moscow, the beleaguered President was able to announce that on Dec. 7 he will finally begin a long-awaited summit conference with Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev in Washington...
...Communist powers. The Chinese speak of gai ge (reform) or kai fang (opening up). The Soviets refer to perestroika (restructuring) and glasnost (openness). What the new slogans herald is the most far-ranging shift in course since Dictator Joseph Stalin drove the Soviet Union onto the path of forced collectivization and heavy industrialization in the 1930s and Beijing's Great Helmsman, Mao Zedong, launched the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Indeed, questions about the limits of the new reforms will be on the minds of the Kremlin's leaders as they mark the 70th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution this week...