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...Twenty years ago, on the morning of June 12, 1987, Reagan arrived in Berlin, on the occasion of the city's 750th birthday. He was scheduled to speak on the Western side of the Brandenburg Gate, for years the city's symbolic dividing line. His speechwriters had drafted an address intended as much for Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, with whom Reagan was forging a close relationship, as for the 20,000 people who gathered to hear him speak. In the speech, Reagan would call on Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall, but that language was opposed strongly by Reagan...
...four most famous words of Ronald Reagan's Presidency almost were never uttered...
...missile defense initiative, writing, "If the Bush administration expects Poles and Czechs to jump for joy and agree to whatever is proposed, it's going to face a mighty crash with reality. The administration might have gotten away with this five years ago, when the memory of Ronald Reagan's steadfast support for our freedom fighters had just been bolstered by American advocacy of NATO enlarge... But the war in Iraq has dented Central European trust." Many Poles are also upset at this week's apparent confirmation, in a report by Council of Europe investigator Dick Marty, that...
...with its deep pockets, was luckier than most other universities. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences was able to draw on its “unrestricted funds” to allocate $5 million for financial aid in 1982, and the aid offered to students was largely unaffected by the Reagan cuts...
...February of 1982, Wesleyan became the first major university to change its aid policy because of the Reagan cuts; the school’s trustees voted to adopt a policy of rejecting some applicants who could not pay full tuition...