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Starting from scratch will present a serious problem to these folks, who are used to arguing soley from a moral standpoint. Abortion may or may not be morally equivalent to murder, but considerations arising from the nature of the relationship between the fetus and the pregnant woman require a legal distinction...
...alternative . . . is a large Communist movement to take over." In fact, Marcos' strongest opposition comes from many nonCommunists, including Jaime Cardinal Sin, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Manila. Reagan's assertion that the Marcos government has done "things . . . that do not look good to us from the standpoint, right now, of democratic rights," was, to put it charitably, an understatement. A few days after the debate, the majority of a Philippine inquiry commission charged that some of Marcos' military commanders, including his close friend and top general, Fabian Ver, had been behind the murder of Opposition Leader...
...know there are things there in the Philippines that do not look good to us from the standpoint right now of democratic rights. But what is the alternative? It is a large Communist movement to take over the Philippines . . . I think that we're better off trying to retain our friendship . . . rather than throwing [the Philippine people] to the wolves...
...said, the fall of the Shah, which happened while the Career Administration was in power, had been followed by the rule of a "maniacal fanatic," obviously meaning the Ayatullah Khomeini. In the Philippines now, Reagan continued, the regime of Ferdinand Marcos might not "look good to us from the standpoint right now of democratic rights," but the alternative to Marcos might be the seizure of power by a Communist movement and that would hardly be any gain for democracy...
From the Soviet standpoint, a major obstacle to the proposed talks was Washington's insistence on discussing strategic and intermediate-range nuclear weapons. The Soviets have steadfastly refused to address those subjects since they abandoned two sets of arms talks in Geneva last fall. But the Soviets, McFarlane said, then further hardened their position, trying to set "preconditions" for the Vienna negotiations. Among them was an insistence that the U.S. agree in advance to a moratorium on the testing and deployment of antisatellite systems. The Soviets already possess such a system; the U.S. does not. According to McFarlane, such...