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...official made sure the back scratching stopped short of anything "illegal or expensive." Reagan aides also put out the word that the President might not be eager to campaign next year for Republican Senators who failed to vote right--a tactic that almost backfired with Pennsylvania's Arlen Specter, who confronted Reagan about it during the Capitol Hill lunch. Specter and others also heard from Geneva, where Kampelman and Colleague John Tower, a former Senator, made calls to warn that the U.S. needed the MX as a bargaining tool...
...Shultz last week, the approaching mobility of Soviet missiles could pose new problems for Washington in keeping track of weapons aimed against the U.S. In the end, the outcome in the Senate depended on a small group of about a dozen fence sitters. Many of them, like Hawkins and Specter, reportedly did not decide until the last day. Four Republicans and three Democrats who voted against the missile last year switched positions. Maryland Senator Charles Mathias, a Republican, explained his switch on strategic grounds, expecially the MX's accuracy. Said he: "Without the MX we don't have a hard...
...battle has long since extended from Jewish themes to a concern for children everywhere. "The specter of starvation is not something consigned to the '30s and '40s," he says. "I look at the screen and see the swollen bellies and haunted eyes of the very young in Cambodia, in Ethiopia, in South America. I could have been that child. I was that child. And I must make a gesture...
...with her father, whom she fatefully resembled. As she once said about the Soviet people, Stalin's "shadow still stands over all of us. It still dictates to us, and we very often obey." The story of Svetlana's life is the chronicle of her losing battle with the specter of her father...
...open arms awaited Svetlana in the U.S.S.R. She must have known that, yet she returned, drawn to a specter she could not elude. "It was as though my father was at the center of a black circle," she wrote in 1963. "Anyone who ventured inside vanished or perished or was destroyed in one way or another." The question is whether, three decades after Stalin's death, the circle will close around his daughter and granddaughter...