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...time, Lyndon Johnson, once kept a big secret by leaking too often. L.B.J. loved power so much, complained about critics so loudly, lied so splendidly so often that nobody believed him when he said he planned to give up the job. He did. If Reagan ever sent that signal, a posse of Republicans would take him at his word and start their presidential campaigns at once...
...government has taken small but significant steps to reduce political repression and to signal its need for support from Western governments. Last month Mugabe ordered the Korean-trained Fifth Brigade that was responsible for the massacres earlier this year to leave Matabeleland. When the brigade's Korean instructors returned home, Mugabe invited Britain to retrain its 5,000 troops...
...other consequences. If the whole world is like me, then certain conflicts become incomprehensible; the very notion of intractability becomes paradoxical. When the U.S. embassy in Tehran is taken over, Americans are bewildered. What does the Ayatullah want? The U.S. Government sends envoys to find out what token or signal or symbolic gesture might satisfy Iran. It is impossible to believe that the Ayatullah wants exactly what he says he wants: the head of the Shah. Things are not done that way any more in the West (even the Soviet bloc has now taken to pensioning off deposed leaders...
...loaf satisfaction from a compromise last week that would allow attorneys to withdraw if their clients are using them in unlawful schemes; they may also announce their resignation from the case. Said Yale Law Professor Geoffrey Hazard, who helped draft the code: "For practical purposes, that's a signal that something is seriously wrong...
Supporters of the increase are worried that a defeat would unsettle the world's banking system. "It would send a very discouraging signal to world financial markets and the countries most in need of new credits," says one U.S. official...