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...early part of this century. American reformers thought they could remake China along Western lines and in the process create millions of new, untapped customers for American exports. Such unlimited hopes for China were dashed with the Communist takeover in 1949, and the pendulum of American opinion soon swung back the other way. McCarthy-era fears of "yellow hordes" hell-bent on expansion dominated the American imagination for over twenty years and grossly distorted our foreign policy in Asia. This attitude changed, however, in the 70's, with Nixon's visit to Peking. Today, the glowing reports of Communist progress...
...special pendulum Johnson uses in a process she called radiesthezure spins wildly when held over a map of Beverly, Richards said, adding that the woman had determined a particular area of the 150-acre lake to search...
...current groundswell could have the beneficial effect of nudging the Administration to ward a more moderate set of defense and arms-control policies than it has espoused to date. The pendulum of official thinking about nuclear weapons has swung from one side to the other in recent years, and it needs to be brought back to the center. The Reaganauts, in their overreaction to the perceived naivete of their Carterite predecessors, have concentrated in their rhetoric and military programs on war fighting at the expense of deterrence, rearmament at the expense of arms control. Most policymakers in the Administration acknowledge...
...Republic, even though Article I of the Constitution theoretically gives Congress primary power over the federal purse. The first Congresses appropriated lump sums that Presidents George Washington and John Adams and their Cabinets could spend as they wished. Later legislatures captured effective control of federal finances, but the pendulum swung back to the White House under a succession of strong-willed modern Presidents, beginning with Franklin D. Roosevelt. The Nixon Administration haughtily proclaimed that congressional appropriations gave it mere "options" as to how much to spend for what. Provoked by such arrogance, Congress passed the Budget Act of 1974, which...