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Despite the flap, both sides seem eager to reach an INF accord before Reagan leaves office. Optimists were encouraged by two developments last week. One was the announcement that the much delayed meeting between Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, widely seen as a prelude to a summit in the U.S. later this year, will begin on Sept. 15. The other was the upbeat tone struck by Kenneth Adelman when he announced his resignation as director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. Said Adelman, a skeptical critic of many arms-control proposals...
...decisions about who has the right to decide seem parochial compared to the more important questions of which decisions are right. Ultimately, that has been the liberal critique of the states rights defense...
Several of the corporate deaths indeed seem to fit that pattern. A partial listing of recent victims...
Nothing, including the PTL scandal, seems about to change televangelism's practice of financially secretive one-man rule. None of the current crop of big-time TV preachers seem eager to follow the example of the most famous of modern evangelists, Billy Graham, who still gets the highest TV ratings of any preacher for his occasional prime-time crusades. Decades ago Graham pioneered a cleanliness campaign among evangelists by taking a straight salary (currently $59,100, plus housing allowance and expenses) rather than living off unaudited gifts. Graham led the way in giving control of his ministry to an independent...
...numbers could pose to Western Europe. What is required is a basic change in the way the Soviet Union deploys its military forces: a shift from an offensive-force posture to one that is structured for defensive purposes. Senator Gore, who visited Moscow in June, reports that the Soviets seem willing now to discuss deployment tactics. "They offered to talk about restructuring of forces on both sides to lead to a defensive posture," he says...