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Gromyko in fact did threaten to walk out on the spot if the U.S. would not renounce, in advance of any formal bargaining, its Strategic Defense Initiative to develop a system that could intercept and destroy nuclear missiles. Shultz replied that the U.S. would rather leave Geneva without an agreement than abandon SDI, which is popularly known as Star Wars. The Soviets decided to try again later and kept talking. Nonetheless, said Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard Perle, a member of Shultz's team, "if the final session Tuesday afternoon had ended on schedule (at 5 p.m.), the conference would...
...loved Big Brother." There is only one major difference between Oceanin and the U.S. The techniques of government self-perpetuation are different. Our leaders don't torture U.S. citizens, although they explicitly support torture of innocent citizens in many other countries. There isn't enough domestic spying to threaten freedom of thought, although there is enough to warrant concern. But just like Winston, we have been convinced we love a Big Brother, a vague compendium of patriotism and a particular ethical model of selfishness and greed. We believe we have won a victory, just as Winston does...
...lost a third of their dollar value, and the government had pledged to buy the shares at precrash prices to keep investors from taking a beating. The collapse heightened an economic crisis that drove Israel's inflation above 1000%, at an annual rate, last October and continues to threaten the country's political stability...
...twelve Senate and 14 House leaders to press the case for doing so. In the Administration's view, talks on defensive weapons would in effect consist of a series of American lectures on the virtues of having "each side turn to greater reliance on defensive systems that don't threaten anyone," in the words of a senior Administration official. The White House also ruled out any thought of offering a moratorium on testing of antisatellite weapons as a concession to get bargaining started. A moratorium might eventually be negotiated, said Administration briefers, only as part of a "package deal...
...going Soviet interest in this field and the wholly unverifiable nature of such research. But beyond such limited, general exploration, as with all its real and imagined weapons systems, the Administration should be prepared to deal--and hopefully to start cutting into the plethora of offensive weapons that so threaten mankind...