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...important to go forward with our military research in space, but this will be destabilizing unless we offer to share that information with the Soviet Union. As a gesture of good faith, and as a demonstration that we are not trying to build a shield that will let us win a nuclear war, we should offer our discoveries to the Soviet Union...
...other partner to shoot another hole? There are those who say yes and call it getting tough. I call it getting wet." In practice, however, the White House too often bowed to pressure for import barriers. The Government hiked the tariff on heavyweight motorcycles from 4.4% to 49.4% to shield the last U.S. manufacturer, Harley-Davidson, and imposed tighter import controls on textiles...
...first of an expected 500 U.S. volunteers began arriving last week to help harvest the coffee crop, while other U.S. volunteers began rotating two-week vigils in hot spots along the Honduran border. They hope to act as a "human shield" to discourage contra attacks. "We don't want to minimize the risk," says Jim Wallis, a religious organizer from Washington who is now in Nicaragua. "But we believe it's time for U.S. citizens to share that risk...
...ICBM strike, the tenuous equation will be upset. Neither the U.S. nor the Soviets could afford to let the other side become invulnerable; such a concession would be virtual surrender. Reagan said last spring that the U.S., if it did have space-based missile defenses, would never abuse the shield by launching an offensive first strike. But, concedes Major General John Storrie, an Air Force space official, "we walk a very narrow line in these matters between strategic defense and offense." The Soviets cannot reasonably be expected to stake their survival on Reagan's earnest assertion that "the United...
...manage the news. Officials can conceal impending actions until their effects are irreversible. Other big institutions-corporations, unions, hospitals, police forces-prefer to cloak their decision-making process and their performance from the scrutiny of the public, whose lives may be deeply affected. And despite the passage of shield laws to protect journalists from having to reveal sources, they are regularly subpoenaed to testify about what they have reported...