Word: softenings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...before, including access to housing, cars and political documents. According to some reports, they may also have received promises that their sons or daughters would receive future party appointments. Moreover, even as veteran military leaders stepped down, the government announced a "Cherish the Army" campaign in an attempt to soften the blow to the armed forces...
...Publicly, Shultz always backs the President. Arms-Control Adviser Paul Nitze would seize what he considered an opening for an advantageous arms deal, but he is a veteran of the bureaucratic wars and not likely to lead any quixotic crusades. The man in the best position to soften Reagan's intransigence is National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. Yet publicly, at least, he has kept himself carefully aligned with his White House boss. Said one Administration official: "No one is ready to break ranks on this...
Unfortunately, the presence of such people cannot soften the impact of another harsh lesson one learns on an assembly line. Manual labor is not edifying, and it does not bring one closer to God or nature. It destroys the mind...
...Reagan. He will give ground, as he already has on South African sanctions and trade, but with hardly an admission that he is changing or that he is troubled. He wants to hold on to his good-guy credentials as long as he can, hoping they may yet soften the onslaught...
...contrast, says the U.S.S.R. might be willing to permit "fundamental" research and restrict the ban to what he calls the "design" stage of space weapons. Much remains to be clarified and negotiated, but because of what their leader has told TIME, Karpov & Co. will now almost certainly have to soften their hard line somewhat on that potentially key issue...