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...make it the first time when he was competing with Andropov. Now that the better man is gone he'll get his chance." Said a worried Moscow housewife: "We are going back to the old ways. Andropov was a strong leader and a strict disciplinarian. Chernenko is like Brezhnev, softer. The Soviet people need someone who will make them work...
...Democrats of the war-and-peace issue. According to recent public opinion polls, Americans have grown anxious about the Administration's tough way of handling the Kremlin, and Reagan's advisers think some conciliatory words could go far to soothe their jitters. Whether his softer line will anger the President's conservative supporters is another matter. The White House apparently feels that the Reagan record over the past three years will satisfy the right wing, however moderate the President may sound...
...situations of the original serve Adapters Thomas Meehan and Ronny Graham well, and if Director Alan Johnson is no Lubitsch, he could well reply, "Who is?" Brooks and Anne Bancroft play the old Jack Benny and Carole Lombard roles with harder edges and softer centers than their predecessors did-a criticism that could be applied to the entire enterprise. Yet the basic story remains surprisingly sturdy and entertaining in the retelling...
Although the U.S. remains skeptical of Nicaragua's intentions, at least on the surface there are signs of movement in the long-frozen relations between the two countries. Shultz's new softer tone was prompted by a series of announcements and a few specific actions by the Sandinista regime that sound, and may ultimately prove to be, substantive. The Managua government said that it plans to hold democratic elections in 1985, and that the long electoral process will begin next month. It announced a limited amnesty for Nicaraguans who fled the country after taking part in fighting...
...that he had developed with his brother Bobby, the President imposed a naval quarantine on Cuba and allowed Khrushchev time to consider. When the Soviets sent two somewhat contradictory replies to his ultimatum, one hard and one more accommodating, Kennedy simply ignored the hard message and replied to the softer one. It worked. Khrushchev blinked, and in the memorable denouement, the Soviet ships turned and steamed away from Cuba. Says Harvard Political Scientist Richard Neustadt: "The Administration set a new standard of prudence in dealing with the Soviet Union. The standard of prudence, the hard thought given about the crisis...