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...flexible response has depended on three elements: strong conventional forces in place in Europe, balanced nuclear forces deployed in support of allied forces on the Continent, and U.S. strategic systems as the ultimate deterrent force. Today this doctrine is firmly established among Western allies, and we are determined to sustain...
Following the arrival ceremonies, the two leaders got down to serious talks. As they posed in the Oval Office for photographers, Reagan explained the Gephardt vote, saying, "We're now very much heartened by the narrow margin of victory," because it meant he would be able to sustain a veto. Yet the House later passed the final trade bill containing the Gephardt amendment by a decisive 290 to 137, just one vote shy of the amount needed to override a veto...
...replace "means- tested" programs -- like welfare -- aimed at the black poor with programs for job training, child care and education that are "available to all members of society who choose to use them." By making these available to all citizens, he contends, enough political support will be generated to sustain the effort. In Wilson's view, special treatment cannot help the underclass. In the long run, only by extending more opportunity to all Americans, regardless of class, will its problems be solved...
Foundation representatives "have been unequivocal in stating their intention to sustain the program for three years," said Jay Winston, director of the SPH's Center for Health Communication. Harvard will continue to donate to the program in kind, but does not plan direct financial support, he added...
...front- page stories on Iran-contra appeared containing only the thinnest and most speculative of new material, just enough to generate a headline and to provide a hook on which to hang a rehash of the same old stories. In this manner the issue seemed to be able to sustain itself as big news, almost regardless of the emergence of new material...