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Talbott's treatment of the SS-20 continues his deceptive even-handedness. He first brands it as a weapon "designed to circumvent" the limits of SALT I, "a classic example of the Soviet penchant for playing as close as possible to the edge of what is permissible...but nonetheless upsetting the stability and predictability that arms control is meant to help achieve." And then he gives the central argument for deployment in the absence of an equitable agreement...
...penchant for head-on confrontation showed itself last week during a tour of a Chrysler plant in Belvidere...
Mulroney may find that his most trying moments are spent dealing not with Washington but with his Tory colleagues. The new Prime Minister won the election partly because he succeeded so well in uniting a fractious party. With victory secured, however, the Progressive Conservatives could easily regain their penchant for bickering over ideological and regional issues. In a parliamentary majority this lopsided, Tory backbenchers may grow restless, or find it safe to dissent from the government line, or even−form cabals to pursue narrow issues. The 58 Tory members from Quebec may prove especially difficult to control. Most...
Purple Rain's barely disguised protagonist is Prince as Prince--alias the Kid, a Milwaukee post-adolescent with a decidedly un-Midwestern penchant for the badder things in life. Supposedly modeled after the friends' garage where the young Prince carried on his musical and sexual experiments, the Kid's room looks like Jodie Foster's den in Taxi Driver...
...Phoenix air-to-air missile has become a symbol for both critics and supporters of the Pentagon's penchant for high-tech weaponry: at $950,000 a shot, it is designed to be launched from the Navy's supersophisticated F-14 fighter jets and to home in on enemy planes using computer-guided radar - when it works. Last week the Navy, which budgeted $388.7 million for the missiles this fiscal year, publicly complained about the quality of the product. It told Hughes Aircraft Co. it would no longer accept shipments because of "marginal workmanship." Said one Navy officer...