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...peaceful intentions and to put the Soviets on the defensive. The essence of his message was what has become known in diplomatic parlance as the "zero option." Reagan announced that the U.S. would forgo plans to place 572 new medium-range missiles in Europe if the Soviets would scrap comparable nuclear missiles they have deployed against Western Europe in the past decade. That done, the number of medium-range missiles aimed by each foe at its potential enemy would indeed be zero...
...right, but thought a powerful government, wrested away from the interests, was the only sure protector of the people. (Teddy Roosevelt 100 years later was still fuming about Jefferson's foreign policy: "a discredit to my country.") Woodrow Wilson made scholarly attempts to rescue Jefferson from the presidential scrap heap. It was left to Franklin Roosevelt, no scholar but a superb manager of political stage effects, to elevate Jefferson to the presidential pantheon. The intellectual sleight of hand was simple enough: the New Deal was the modern embodiment of the Jeffersonian "spirit," in which government, depending on its purposes...
...faced with -'an uncontrollable termination"-that is, complete cancellation-of two reactors under construction. Surveying the ballooning cost of building nuclear plants, Merrill Lynch, the giant investment firm, coldly suggested in March that one of the best ways for utilities to improve their financial position would be to scrap 18 of the 78 reactors for which construction permits have been issued. Since then, three of the projects on the Merrill Lynch hit list have indeed been junked...
...been so bruising that it threatened to tear the party apart. The moderates were striving to turn back the challenge of the extremists, under Benn's leadership, that had rapidly gained momentum since the party was turned out of power in May 1979. The Bennites want Britain to scrap its nuclear arms, pull out of NATO and nationalize banks and insurance companies. In February, rebelling against the leftward tilt of the party, some of Labor's top leaders bolted to form the Social Democratic Party, which has gained in popularity so rapidly that it has topped both...
...other radicals who are not bona fide Laborites. They do not accuse Benn of being Marxist himself, a label he rejects, but there is little doubt that he has become a point man for Marxist groups. Benn's left would take Britain out of the European Community, unilaterally scrap all of Britain's nuclear weapons and bar U.S. cruise missiles from British soil. It would abolish the House of Lords, nationalize all important industries and redistribute the nation's wealth. "If we stick to our guns, if we are not diverted," Benn urges his supporters, "we have...