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...limit deployment of the MX to 50 missiles, half the number the White House wanted. The Defense Department, which had hoped to produce 48 more missiles in fiscal 1986, agreed to 21 and ultimately settled for twelve. Said Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd of the Administration's compromise: "To stave off defeat, they made concessions...
Even if authorities manage to stave off a backlash, the terrorist strikes were a severe setback for the youthful Prime Minister. Since he led his Congress (I) Party to an overwhelming victory in last December's parliamentary elections, Gandhi has made significant concessions in an attempt to bring Sikh political leaders to the negotiating table. He released Sikh leaders who had been held in detention since the army assault on the Golden Temple, ordered an independent inquiry into the massacres that followed his mother's death, and lifted a ban on the All-India Sikh Students' Federation, the most radical...
Although today's rally is a more modest undertaking, it is an important sign that divestiture organizers realize that vigilance is not enough. Instead, activists must stave off campus complacency with new, aggressive tactics. The establishment of the Endowment for Divestiture two years ago was an example of such a new approach, and one which has proved effective in gaining support. Today's mass rally marks another fresh assault on the established patterns of the movement. The issue deserves nothing less...
...highly traumatic. The Soviet leaders are among the most conservative on earth. They hate uncertainty, they loathe unpredictability. Leadership transitions are fraught with both. So this time around, they decided to cope with the dilemma by going to Gorbachev. That way, they hoped, the system could at least stave off another transition for a long time. Gorbachev, in short, offered the prospect of institutional longevity...
...might have known that this would be counterproductive. Several weeks ago, Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke had written to Lange urging him, in effect, to moderate his antinuclear position. Hawke had faced a similar threat from antinuclear forces within his own Australian Labor Party but had managed to stave off efforts to prevent U.S. Navy ships from visiting Australian ports. If the U.S. considered Hawke's letter to Lange to be a "forthright expression" of Australia's support for ANZUS, many New Zealanders tended to see it as meddling by a neighboring country they sometimes regard as a bullying older...