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Trade unexpectedly turned out to be the touchiest subject of all. In Moscow last month, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze told Secretary of State James Baker that the Kremlin understood American reluctance to sign a comprehensive trade deal while Moscow continues its economic embargo of Lithuania. But Gorbachev last week would not let the subject drop. In a sharp exchange with congressional leaders Friday morning, he expressed particular irritation that the U.S. still denies most-favored-nation trade status to the U.S.S.R., though it has just renewed that status for China despite last year's massacre of pro-democracy demonstrators...
Stanford's attitude is not surprising, considering the controversy surrounding the ethics of leveraged buyout deals. Headlines splashed across the business pages of The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal have made LBOs into one of the touchiest investment issues...
...touchiest budget issues may be military spending. Most Democrats do not want to appear soft on defense, which could be politically damaging. Still, many Democrats, along with a number of Republicans, remain convinced that the U.S. cannot afford as much of an arms buildup as Reagan has proposed. Says a Capitol Hill staffer: "If there were a way to provide 3% real growth for defense, you can bet that the Democrats would do it. But the cupboard is bare. There's nothing there...
Glitman and Obukhov will be the point men on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which deal mostly with weapons deployed in Europe. Tower and Karpov will square off over intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Kvitsinsky and Kampelman will confront each other on the touchiest issue in the negotiations, space weapons. The Soviets hope to knock out President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, while it is still in the research stage. The overall American posture, by contrast, is to reduce existing offensive weapons and worry at a later date about placing...
Your writer is the touchiest of all. His smug world of preppie crudities has been challenged, and he is annoyed that its victims are no longer "good sports." Nobody likes to be put down...