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Winston Churchill once said, 'There is no such thing as public opinion; there is only published opinion." If the remark is right rather than merely clever, then the press has a lot to do with whose opinion gets heard. In a way, it does. The press spends much of its time badgering one set of people (politicians, coaches, businessmen) who may at the moment be reluctant to comment, and the rest of the time fending off others (politicians, performers, promoters) all too eager to draw attention to themselves. Those avoiding the press, or avoided by the press...
Each of the councilors was escorted by an usher, either a relatives or a friend. Councilor Walter J. Sullivan, who began his 13th term, had an honor guard of four grandchildren, which caused 14-tern incumbent Alfred E. Vellucci to remark. "I thought seriously of bringing my grandchildren. Mr. Chairman, but there are 33 of them...
Nonetheless, the idea has merit. The distinction between "strategic" missiles, defined by the U.S. as those with ranges of 3,400 miles or more, and "intermediate-range" weapons has always been arbitrary. Westerners remark that Soviet strategic missiles can hit London or Rome as easily as Chicago; Moscow considers any missiles capable of striking the U.S.S.R. to be strategic, whatever their range. Merging the two sets of talks would make possible more varied trade-offs between different types of weaponry...
Shortly after Reagan took office, though, the Soviets concluded that they had been wrong about him. Americans often remark that Reagan's bark has been worse than his bite. After all, he lifted the embargo that Carter had clamped on U.S. grain sales to the Soviet Union following the invasion of Afghanistan and proposed only mild and ineffectual economic sanctions in response to the imposition of martial law in Poland. But the Soviets have come to take Reagan at his word. Says a Kremlin specialist on American affairs: "With Carter, it was always interesting to read a speech...
...American missiles--which the West Europeans first urged us to bring--strategic musings about nuclear war fighting, the casual remark about nuclear war of the first year or so of the Reagan administration, or the Reagan military build-up which created the neutralist climate in West Germany. The deepest crisis, especially among the young, the leftish intellectuals, and the Protestant Churches, is a moral one. The peace movement is part of a larger romantic, anti-modernist impulse which in turn draws its inspiration and main themes from two sources first, the effect of a political and cultural assault on liberal...