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...When Ronald Reagan took office in 1981, large numbers of Americans shared his determination to build up U.S. armaments and take a hard stance against Soviet expansionism. But as Reagan prepared for this week's meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva, a TIME poll showed more support for reaching an accommodation with the Soviet Union than at any other time during his presidency. The U.S. public strongly favors making significant progress in talks with the Soviets, particularly on nuclear arms control, even while it is dubious about any likely success. Alkthough a majority of Americans favor development of the President...
...Ronald Reagan, the road to his first meeting with a Soviet leader has been bumpy and twisting. Driven by a lifelong visceral anti-Communism, he campaigned for the White House in 1980 by charging that détente was "an illusion" and that the arms-limitation treaty (SALT II) with the Soviet Union was "fatally flawed." At his first presidential press conference on Jan. 29, 1981, Reagan set a chilly tone. The Soviets, he said, "reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat" in pursuit of world domination. Only three months later, the President adopted...
Leonard Peltier is not exactly a household name in the U.S. But in the Soviet Union he ranks right up there with Ronald Reagan and Michael Jackson. While the President is in Geneva, the White House will be deluged with sacks of postcards mailed by readers of the Young Communist League newspaper demanding the release of that "well-known" political prisoner. The paper called on its readers "to raise our voices in defense of the human rights and freedom of those whose only 'fault' is to struggle against the genocide unleashed by U.S. authorities against the native population." Translation...
...exchange was tense but predictable. Meeting with congressional leaders last week, Ronald Reagan reiterated his support for the controversial Gramm-Rudman amendment to balance the budget in five years. The President also insisted that Gramm-Rudman did not give Congress the right to rescind its earlier agreement to increase defense spending by 3% above inflation in the next two fiscal years. As lawmakers tried to explain that both the Senate and the House versions of deficit reduction call for deep cuts in military spending, Reagan gruffly insisted that a right-minded Congress could indeed achieve a balanced budget without sacrificing...
...fines or spent short periods in jail are 23 U.S. Congressmen, Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker, Singer Harry Belafonte, Amy Carter and two of Ethel and Robert Kennedy's children, Rory and Douglas. As the protests spread, the House and Senate introduced bills calling for action against South Africa, and Ronald Reagan came up with his own list of sanctions...