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...devices which nobody wants, everyone fears, and are never intended for use. But we are also left with a type of weapon which, sadly, cannot really escape the cruel dictates of deterrence theory. Despite their admitted horror, weapons which burn lungs, spread plague or shatter central nervous systems still respond to the same "logic" as nukes--if the United States has them the Soviets will be less tempted to use them...
Ever since President Dwight Eisenhower used TV to advertise his 1952 campaign, political purists have fretted that it might be possible to market a national leader on image alone-that voters would respond to the sizzle and forget to ask, Where's the steak? Presidential candidates spend up to $16 million on broadcast messages, and media strategists often become their most powerful advisers. The conventional wisdom is that a candidate's ads set the tone and direction for his campaign. But conventional wisdom in American politics has a way of being debunked, and this year the prideful place...
...Bipartisan Commission on Strategic Forces, on a private visit to Moscow, failed to reach Chernenko because the Soviets refused to let Scowcroft deliver it at an appropriate diplomatic level. Says Harvard Professor Paul Doty, who was traveling with Scowcroft: "That was the Soviet way of saying they will not respond to an informal probe." In addition, Moscow last week deployed more than 200 ships hi the largest war-games exercise ever staged by the Soviet navy (see WORLD...
...Department of Revenue seized the deli after the owners failed to respond to a series of less drastic measures. The department used seizure only as a last resort, "if we simply can't work anything out" with the establishment, said spokesman George Bogosian...
There was not, however, a unity of views within the Administration over how to respond. Very nearly the first words spoken on the subject of Central America it the councils of the Reagan Administration made reference to the danger of "another Viet Nam." Indeed, this danger existed, if Reagan repeated the errors of the past and resorted to incrementalism. To start small, to show hesitation, to localize our response was to Vietnamize the situation. If it is easier to escalate step by small step, it is easier for an adversary to respond to each step with a response that...