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Reagan's immediate problem is that the ounces of prevention proposed last week will do little to solve the weighty woes of El Salvador. The military situation is deteriorating. The March 28 elections, which the U.S. had hoped would strengthen the centrist Duarte government, are in danger of being disrupted by the left. The rebels have begun a new offensive. And the harsh militaristic leaders of the far right threaten to gain power in a situation that is becoming more polarized, leaving the U.S. with fewer and fewer options. The Administration's policy now is simply to wait...
...influence on the Soviet succession: Many American liberals are wrong in thinking that the Soviet government is in the hands of relatively moderate men and that if we are not accommodating to them, we will strengthen the dreadful hawks waiting in the wings. I believe the contrary. The current leadership is dominated by parochial old Stalinists. What can be worse than that? The next generation will certainly be less parochial, and it will be post-Stalinist. The people who now run the Soviet Union are really very hawkish, and the alternative to them is not a still more hawkish group...
...When the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment opened hearings last month, Chairman Henry Waxman of California called the bill "an open invitation for a virtual halt in air-pollution control." At week's end, he announced that he would introduce his own bill to simplify and strengthen the act. After nearly a year of debate, though, nobody knows when, or how, the 1970 model will be restyled. The only certainty is that in the coming months, the air in Washington should be hot and heavy with angry words. -By Frederic Golden. Reported by Gary Lee/Washington
...costs, maintenance, training and ammunition have always been favorite congressional targets because the money buys few jobs in legislators' home districts and outlays drop immediately. But these are exactly the areas that should not be cut; they have been eroding for years and must be shored up to strengthen the armed services...
...Soviet pipeline, sharpened his criticism in a 324-page message sent to Congress during his stay in Saudi Arabia last week. Said he: "No defense policy could succeed in the long run unless [we pursue] a policy that ensures that our resources will not be diverted to strengthen our adversary...