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...achieved to date have been, in the words of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, "modest but significant"-and useful as precedents. The Soviets agreed in SALT II to dismantle some of their older weapons. Had the treaty gone into force, they would have been obliged under its terms to scrap more. And their proposal in START calls for still further reductions...
...armed forces, called for stronger emphasis on the righteousness of "defense against unjust aggression," more realism about Communism and more reaction from bishops in other Western nations who are "anxious about their own defense." Another conservative, New Orleans Archbishop Philip Hannan, 69, argued that his colleagues should scrap the document entirely because it ignores the evils of Soviet Communism...
...home that the very word must fetch up a distinct and unique image and sensibility in every person. And indeed home can be many things: a house, a town, a neighborhood, a state, a country, a room. Home can be wherever one feels at home, and even a scrap of a place can mobilize that homey feeling. The old standard Autumn in New York plausibly evokes a person looking down on the metropolis from the 27th floor of a hotel to find that the "glittering crowds and shimmering clouds in canyons of steel-they're making me feel...
...televised speech Monday night, the President admitted that the U.S. "would prefer that the Soviets dismantle SS-18's [their intercontinental ballistic missiles] rather than we build more holes." Since Moscow is unlikely to scrap its SS-18's. Reagan would have done much better to aim at finding a mutual compromise. The SS-18 question is on the START negotiations agenda; Reagan could have emphasized that and put off the MX a while longer, at least long enough to see what else Andropov and Co. might do to better relations...
...questioned about his views on Social Security, Wilson advocated making Social Security payments voluntary for those over 45 years of age. Ever the opportunistic politician, Brown quickly created a series of T.V. ads showing scissors clipping a Social Security card as a voice implied that Pete Wilson wants to scrap the system. Los Angeles Times analyst Richard Bergholz, however, claimed that in fact the candidates' views on the issue are virtually identical to each others...