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...Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone [Dec. 6] is staunchly pro-American. Nevertheless, the U.S. will be disappointed if it expects Nakasone to respond quickly and fully to U.S. requests for increased Japanese military power and eased Japanese import restrictions. Rigid budget limitations make it difficult to step up defense spending, and stubborn farmers will resist more beef and citrus imports...
...quintessential performance by a supremely confident yet self-effacing man, ever gracious in manner, polite in speech, but implacably stubborn. As Senator after Senator fired questions at him, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger coolly presented the Administration's case for the MX missile before the Armed Services Committee last week. Never once did Weinberger lose his temper or raise his voice. And no matter how heated the interrogation, Weinberger did not budge a millimeter from his position. "Once his mind is made up, he is impossible to bend," says a close associate at the Pentagon. "He is a gentle...
Weinberger denies, stubbornly, that he is being needlessly stubborn about the budget. "I am not contumaciously glued to any particular number," he says. "But I do feel that the programs we have now are essential, and if we do not get them we are sending bad signals around the world." Weinberger, moreover, points out that even if critics get their way and the Pentagon budget is cut by $5 billion to $10 billion, the slash will hardly make a sliver's worth of difference in a projected deficit of $150 billion. The Defense Secretary has grown so protective...
...death is mostly a matter of morbid aesthetics, tangential to the far more basic and troublesome question of whether society ought to kill criminals. It is not at all clear that capital punishment deters would-be murderers better than the threat of life imprisonment. Yet there is a stubborn popular belief in the unique deterrent power of the death penalty. Even if deterrence were unequivocally disproved, however, public sentiment might still favor capital punishment. The death penalty, say proponents, is necessary to demonstrate that society takes its laws seriously; retribution seems a natural human urge. As the homicide rate doubled...
Despite progress, minority journalists face stubborn obstacles...