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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...year's end the panel would submit a list of proposed base closings to Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci, waiving environmental-impact statements. Carlucci must approve or reject the entire list. If Congress votes to save the bases, it could be overruled by a presidential veto. The House bill is similar to a plan passed by the Senate; after the two bills are reconciled, President Reagan is expected to approve. The savings from the shutdowns could be as much as $5 billion annually...
During both events, Gorbachev made a determined effort to use the newly won legitimacy of the Soviet reform program as a way of jump-starting similar plans in the East bloc. Though he has signaled many times that Moscow's allies are free to experiment with perestroika programs of their own, they have done so with varying levels of enthusiasm and, for the most part, not too successfully...
...kind of affectionate tales Tip O'Neill tells of the Kennedys in his autobiography -- how, for instance, bribes were paid to potential supporters of Jack. But if he could use the death of Kennedy for a noble purpose, he could, clearly, use the man's life in a similar way. He tries to make everything instrumental, even inferior instruments...
...similar calculation made Dukakis, against the advice of his family and friends, get his Army duty over before going on to law school. Having spent one summer in Peru and one semester in Washington, he had to break off his developing interest in politics for a task he accurately foresaw as one of almost complete boredom. But he must have sensed that Harvard Law -- where he was already accepted -- would give him opportunities to participate in a larger world of politics, creating a momentum that would be even harder to break. Going to Korea was like going to bed early...
...Soviet leader, chairing a Warsaw Pact summit, advances Moscow' s program for political and economic renewal as a way of jump- starting similar plans in Eastern Europe. -- A crackdown in Nicaragua spurs calls for military aid to the contras. -- Britain beats the U. S. to the arms deal of the century...