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...more interested in laying the issues out so we have a real debate instead of this sort of naval barrage where one side fires a salvo and the other answers." Silvers added...
Ronald Reagan's 1985 budget took a thunderous shelling last week. Day after day, jittery Wall Street investors fired sell orders, hitting stock prices with their heaviest declines since 1982. Testifying in Washington, Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker fired the single most damaging salvo by warning that the deficits envisaged in the budget pose a "clear and present danger," threatening to keep Interest rates high and tip the economy into a new recession. Vote-conscious Congressmen attacked the budget from all angles. And throughout the barrage, Administration officials were hunkering down behind sandbags...
...decisive edge for the U.S., whatever the superficial appeal, could be dangerous. Deterrence of nuclear war is based on the concept of mutual assured destruction. As long as the U.S. and the Soviet Union each believes that the other would respond to a nuclear attack with a devastating nuclear salvo of its own, neither will risk a first strike. Deterrence requires nuclear stability, with both countries in a state of certain nervous vulnerability-sufficiently well-armed to retaliate if attacked but not strong enough to gamble by launching a first strike...
WHATEVER THE merits of the case, O'Neill's opening salvo was hasty. As the Democratic strong man, O'Neill must appear responsible. He should not have gratuitously attacked the First Lady, and his comments about Reagan's work habits and intelligence do not befit his own stature. It may be true that Reagan works little and vacations a lot, but he should leave that kind of criticism to Democratic back-benchers. The Speaker of the House does not have to resort to insults to get his job done...
...Panama, he waded through the muddy jungle to watch American infantrymen stage a brisk firing exercise with live ammunition. Off the coast of El Salvador, he was literally lifted off his feet by a salvo from the 16-in. guns of the recommissioned battleship U.S.S. New Jersey. In between, he took a tense helicopter ride, spiraling into a heavily guarded barrio of El Salvador's provincial capital, San Vicente. After he touched down, he expressed his concern and sympathy to residents of a Salvadoran refugee camp...