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Despite the bellicose rhetoric, Commonwealth leaders remained relatively optimistic. Zambia's Kaunda implied that the Patriotic Front's reaction was little more than posturing, explaining: "Just now, various parties must react in a certain way." His colleague, Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere, said flatly: "The Patriotic Front [leaders] are going to a constitutional conference called by the decolonizing power." Nyerere suggested, however, that the British government might have a much harder time getting the Muzorewa-Smith bloc to the conference table. Snapped back Mrs. Thatcher: "If Julius Nyerere can deal with his problem," i.e., producing the guerrilla leaders...
...been remarkably accurate in his economic forecasting. Known from the beginning as a determined inflation fighter, he has taken the position that the Fed should be dedicated to a long-term plan for reducing the inflation rate over the next five to seven years and should not react nervously to every fluctuation in the economic outlook. "Steady as you go" be came his watchword...
...which the U.S. and the Soviet Union fire thousands of atomic warheads at each other, obliterate both societies and kill scores of millions. But what if one side attacked with conventional weapons and the other retaliated with just three or four nuclear missiles? How would the first nation react to that...
...beginning to be an open scandal in Washington that the Administration makes its decisions on how Kennedy will react. The President is governing at the sufferance of Senator Kennedy...
Usually, it was expressed as concern about "losing Iran," or about the nation doing nothing when an American ambassador was shot down overseas, or about how the U.S. might-or might not-react if the Middle East oilfields were seized. The concern has found its sharpest focus in the argument over the SALT II treaty: whether it will leave the U.S. weaker, more vulnerable...