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...President's big dilemma is that after the 1984 election, he legitimized SDI as a symbol of the true faith. He has jettisoned five years of rhetoric about the Evil Empire; he has restored a climate of détente. But the right wing still regarded the summit as a triumph. Why? Because he didn't give away SDI. That means if he moves to trade it away in the next year or so, he'll have an uprising on his hands...
...Rangoon street hopes, a little wistfully, that his government may in time choose to emulate China's new liberalism and throw open its doors to the West. But that, most foreign observers agree, represents the triumph of optimism over realism. For the moment, it seems, Burma will continue to remain a never-never land where history is held under house arrest, and all the clocks have stopped...
...defense, Dole points out that he was able to stitch together a number of compromises last year. The most significant was a new five-year farm bill, for which Dole led the tortuous negotiations. It was a triumph for him when Reagan signed the measure last month. Last spring, however, Dole was denied a larger victory. Courageously, he rammed through the Senate a politically risky anti-deficit package, including a deferral of Social Security increases. But Reagan reneged on the deal, leaving Dole and other Senate Republicans dangling...
NASA's woes were further accentuated by a Soviet coup. Just as U.S. television cameras were showing the Navy recovery ship, the U.S.S. Preserver, bringing to Port Canaveral its dolorous cargo in a flag-draped container last week, Soviet television was beaming to the world images of a triumph: the successful launch of a Soyuz spacecraft that carried a pair of cosmonauts to the Soviets' newest space station. Normally, the Soviets announce space shots only after they have been safely launched. Though last week's "live" telecast appeared to be risky--what if something had gone wrong?--the Soviets actually...
González called the vote a "triumph for the Spanish people." It was also a triumph for González. He had taken office in 1982 on an anti-NATO platform, but then changed his mind and supported continued Spanish membership. During the campaign, he hinted that he would resign and call early elections if he lost. "I always said that the final result depended on Felipe's final address, and I wasn't far wrong," said Foreign Ministry Spokesman Inocencio Arias. After lying low for much of the prevoting skirmishes, González pulled out all the stops in the last...