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...nuclear capacity. But at the negotiating table this summer, their representatives will haggle over the same old minutiae, such as how to classify the plethora of weapons systems. Failure, when combined with the inevitable confrontations over other world issues, will likely lead the two leaders back to the saber-rattling with which they are so much more comfortable...
Gerald Ebbesen, 72, a World War II veteran, voted for the nuclear weapons ban. "There's been a lot of saber rattling lately," said Ebbesen, adjusting his hunter's cap to leave. "I'm as American as the next, but it's good to know this town ha enough common sense to push ahead a measure like this." The White House, let alone the Kremlin, is far removed from Newfane, but not, Vermont's citizens insisted last week, beyond reach...
There is something heroic nowadays about a movie that dares its audience to keep a straight face. And there are rewards for passing this strenuous test. Quest's canvas is colorfully daubed with great woolly mammoths and saber-toothed tigers, and humanized with a prototype love affair between Naoh (Everett McGill), the chief Ulam, and Ika (Rae Dawn Chong, the daughter of Cheech's partner), a chatty, chalk-dipped girl from a more advanced tribe. McGill brings so much conviction to Naoh's desperate attempts first to keep the old fire alive, and then to create...
...answers to these questions would probably embarrass the nation's lumbering military bureaucracy. But more important as far as the politics of registration is concerned is the realization that regardless of official rhetoric, the president views registration as a convenient saber to rattle at the Soviets, much in the same way Carter did in 1980. Growing European uneasiness over American inconsistency in international affairs only encouraged Reagan further, according to some White House aides...
...conviction in Europe that U.S. governments, including the Reagan Administration, cannot be trusted to handle the war-or-peace issue. Says George Ball, Under Secretary of State in the Johnson Administration and a leading expert on European affairs: "A lot of young people in Europe are disturbed by the saber rattling they have heard and continue to hear out of Washington. It scares the bejesus out of the Europeans, and they go to the streets, shouting that a bunch of lunatics is running things in Washington. What's worrisome to me is that for the people in the streets...