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There is one defense issue on which Reagan's position is more dangerous than Carter's: how to reach an effective strategic arms agreement with the Soviet Union. The Reagan proposal to scrap SALT II and renegotiate an entirely new treaty is simply not plausible, as Carter discovered to his chagrin when he tried the same thing with Moscow in 1977 (see box). There is no doubt that Reagan's stance runs the higher risk of a new, costly and counterproductive arms race, although he has modified an earlier position that the U.S. be militarily superior to the Soviets...
Where Carter negotiated an arms control treaty that he still intends to lobby through Congress, Reagan would scrap SALT II and challenge the Soviet Union to an arms race. Where Carter has exercised restraint in dealing with the Soviet combat troops in Cuba and invasion of Afghanistan, Reagan threatened to blockade Cuba and to teach the Soviets a lesson after Afghanistan. Where Carter, caught in the throes of the new militarism, reinstituted draft registration, Reagan's record suggests he might use the new recruits to fight for some new "noble cause." Where Carter has learned from four years of mixed...
...final secession by the old Cantabrigians came in December, 1842, when some of them petitioned the state legislature to separate them from East Cambridge and Cambridgeport. Rebuffed by the state, they took the issue to town meeting, where representatives of all three areas combined to scrap the plan...
First, there is the hard truth that winter is nearly upon us. What's left of summer? A scrap of September. Good weather of a crisp and forbidding sort may continue through the first couple of weeks of October. That's it; finito. No point in getting comfortable. The New Hampshireman admires winter for its length and awfulness, and for the way in which it bears out his view of the world, but he does not look forward to it. Not looking forward to winter is his philosophy. But that is too simple. A flatlander who finds...
...sometimes become obsolete, but the ideal of fairness always endures. Circumstances may change, but the work of compassion must continue. It is surely correct that we cannot solve problems by throwing money at them; but it is also correct that we dare not throw national problems onto a scrap heap of inattention and indifference. The poor may be out of political fashion, but they are not without human needs. The middle class may be angry, but they have not lost the dream that all Americans can advance together...