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...right: his clever tactic of positioning himself as the only Democratic centrist and his impressive grasp of the issues have made Gore, at 39, a viable contender for the top spot. But in recent weeks he has become something more: the only Democrat building a solid geographic base and, partly as a result, the only contender in either party developing an early lock on at least the second spot on a ticket. Having decided to concentrate on the South rather than Iowa and New Hampshire, the junior Senator from Tennessee has been reaping a daily harvest of endorsements from leaders...
...signs of strain and had made elementary errors. Although Kasparov's dangerously careless play in Game 23 had badly unnerved him, he regained his composure for the final meeting last Friday. The defending champion opened the contest with an uncharacteristically conservative strategy designed to build an advantage slowly. The tactic seemed to wear down Karpov, who was short of time. When play resumed on Saturday after an adjournment, the champion methodically advanced his queen into the challenger's territory. It took just 24 moves for Kasparov to renew his hold on the title...
...agreement on strategic cuts. This was a considerable concession from the Soviets, whose insistence on nipping Star Wars in the bud had led them to link SDI restrictions to the tentative wide-ranging agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit last year. Yet the Soviets have long pursued a tactic of linking and unlinking and then relinking SDI to other agreements; the idea is sure to come back to haunt a START agreement before the two leaders can clink glasses again in Moscow next year...
Brokaw was neither stooge nor combatant. His tactic was to ask sharp, tight questions but rarely argue back. His concern, he says, was not to "showboat" himself and not to let Gorbachev filibuster with windy answers, though there was no way to stop him, says Brokaw, "short of reaching over and grabbing him by the tie, which I almost did." Gorbachev is unabashable, as seasoned politicians come to be, but as a salesman and defender of Communism, he was nowhere. He was more convincing on the question of how much he wants, and perhaps needs, to reduce the arms race...
...chief Sovietologist on the staff of the National Security Council, Jack Matlock (who is now U.S. Ambassador to Moscow), favored the zero option but cautioned against euphoria. Gorbachev's latest tactic, he told colleagues, "might be a breakthrough in the negotiations, but it would also achieve & the elimination of American INF missiles in Europe...