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...would knock out every Soviet missile before it struck the U.S. The Soviets, they fear, would simply rush to build more and more sophisticated missiles to saturate U.S. defenses, pushing the arms race into a volatile new phase. For the moment, the superpowers have informally agreed to practice "interim restraint" while groping for a compre- hensive arms-control agreement. Many arms-control advocates fear that Star Wars will lead to what military planners call breakout, when one side unilaterally declares itself no longer bound by past agreements and suddenly fields large numbers of new and more lethal weapons...
...first I didn't want to own a VCR," he recalls. "There is so much on TV, and there are only so many hours in the day. With a VCR, I thought I'd go crazy trying to watch everything I taped." But Zoglin soon learned restraint. "I tape shows on Friday nights," he says, "and then I force myself to stay up Sunday night to watch them. I refuse to let one week's shows carry over into the next week. That way lies madness...
IMAGINE the enormous bureaucracy which would be needed to enforce complicated comparable worth legislation. Aside from the sheer cost of maintaining such a force in an era which demands economic restraint, already over-crowded courts would be inundated with complaints brought forward by the necessarily random guidelines of the agency. Thousands of employees would be needed to inspect the payroll practices of millions of businesses. This country simply cannot financially afford the burden of such a socialist task force...
...politically frustrated. Nor need it continue to single out American victims as readily as in the past. The United States government must ensure that its economic and political preponderance globally is tempered with a more thoughtful and respectful consideration of world peoples. If U.S. corporations are unwilling to exercise restraint on their own, our government must seek to enforce fair labor and safety practices abroad. If foreign governments receiving U.S. aid operate repressive regimes, this country must speak out publicly against such abuses and make its aid conditional on standards of basic economic and civil justice...
...Congress to stop the President from trying to solve the nation's problems by multiplying the misery of the underpriveleged. We hope that the country's elected representatives will show vigilance in protecting necessary social programs and will fight for restraint in defense spending. It is high time that those beneficiaries of the Reagan recovery, the wealthy and the profit soaked corporations, make a small sacrifice towards a big problem. Most of all, we hope that, despite four more years of Reagan, Congress can begin to show the nation the way back toward compassionate and responsible government...