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...election, just 11% of the nation's black voters cast their ballots for Ronald Reagan over Jimmy Carter. In 1984 Reagan received a mere 9% of the black vote against Walter Mondale. Yet last week a New York Times/CBS News Poll showed that a startling 56% of the blacks interviewed approved of the way the President was handling his job. Overall, the poll gave Reagan the highest approval of his presidency...
...that the young are generally more energetic than the old, although Ronald Reagan and Deng Xiaoping have rendered even that proposition somewhat dubious. But the other characteristic of youth is an absence: the absence of the memory and experience of age. "New generation" politicians, unlike a Reagan or a Mondale, have no memory of the great transforming events of this century such as the Depression, World War II or postwar reconstruction. Only the peculiar arrogance of youth can make a virtue of that vice. That vice, of course, is no fault of the young, but it is hardly a great...
...level diplomacy. So there was no reason to expect anything out of the ordinary when Oleg Sokolov, the Soviet chargé d'affaires in Washington, arrived early last Wednesday morning to see Secretary of State George Shultz. But when Sokolov handed him a lengthy letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan, Shultz became the first man in official Washington to be startled by a sweeping and unexpected new arms-control proposal. It was studded with ambiguities and potentially risky approaches, but it also set forth a bold schedule for making the world nuclear-free and left the Administration scrambling...
...Ronald Reagan came into office proclaiming that his goal would be significant reductions rather than merely limits on nuclear weapons, as his predecessors had attempted through the SALT process. (Carter had proposed the same idea in 1977, but backed away when the Soviets balked.) Moscow walked out on the negotiations in late 1983 in reaction to the U.S. deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, but spurred by the desire to prevent Reagan from proceeding with his Strategic Defense Initiative, it returned to Geneva early last year to open a new round of negotiations...
...Dole likes nothing better than salting his conversation with wry barbs, often aimed at Bob Dole. He even pokes fun at his presidential ambitions, which are complicated by the fact that this year he will frequently find himself at odds with Ronald Reagan or congressional Republicans or both over issues like tax reform and the budget. "I've been trying to keep one foot in 1988," he noted as he relaxed on a plane trip from his native Kansas last week. "Or one toe maybe. I may not have a foot...