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Should Hart's aggressive new drive fail to pay off, some of his aides say, he will reassess his strategy; particularly if Mondale wins in Texas and Ohio, it will be almost impossible to deny him the nomination, and Hart may decide for the sake of party unity to aim his sharpest fire from that point on at Reagan. But Hart is bitter about what he sees as Mondale's hypocrisy. That resentment seethed to the surface last week when he noted, more than once, that he now doubts there is any way, even in the name...
...have vivid and powerful memories from those years, the kind that, for the sake of survival, one tends to suppress," Haviaras says, describing how he has only recently worked these years out through his fiction writing. "The last book left off at the crucial age of 12, and [The Heroic Age] roughly carries on the tale...
OFCOURSE, it makes little sense to support arms control agreements merely for their own sake. Breaking the ABM treaty, however, will have an immediate and adverse impact on the unity of the Western alliance. The deployment of Euromissiles last fall was enough to bring out hundreds of thousands of demonstrators. How will Europeans respond to a unilateral American abrogation of one of the most successful arms accords ever negotiated...
...worth the cost. The President wants us to pursue the mirage of absolute security in an age when weapons of mass destruction make such security impossible. Only myopic could lead us to break a successful arms accord, destroy our European alliance, and spark an arms race for the sake of a new Maginot line which would never work. Spending tens of billions of dollars researching a fatally flawed idea, and perhaps hundreds of billions implementing it would indeed require blindness on a national scale...
...prostitutes, as is commonly assumed among Americans. But because of the nature of their profession there is a certain risque and taboo element to their life. Geisha are entertainers; they are hired by small gatherings of men for evening amusement at banquets. Geisha perform traditional dances and songs, pour sake for the customers and provide the services of a very well-trained and amusing hostess who make parties run smoothly...