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...task is to face the Soviets with political firmness and sophistication. That means eventually resuming carrot-and-stick diplomacy?with an effective stick, to be sure, but also with the restoration of those carrots that the Soviets complain have been thrown away. Only thus can the superpowers reverse the vicious cycle of retribution and recrimination that is driving them toward more and worse confrontations. The suspense 18 years ago was who would blink first. The challenge now is for the superpowers to find some way of blinking simultaneously so that they can start looking at where to go from here...
There is a rising tide of bitterness in black America. It existed well before the vicious race riot last month that killed 16 people and sent ugly plumes of smoke into the night skies over Miami. But the violence caught the attention of white America-and that fact too causes further black cynicism. Black leaders, echoing their pleas of the riot-punctuated 1960s, are asking once again: Do we have to burn our own neighborhoods in order to be heard...
Other possible proposals to fight the recession-a big increase in federal spending on public-works programs, for example-incur an even more serious risk of spurring inflation. The biggest danger, therefore, is that the U.S. has got itself into a truly vicious circle: inflation is cured by recession, which is cured by more inflation, which results in another recession...
...most personnel are quitting the armed forces for the most simple and obvious of reasons. Joint Chiefs Chairman Jones says it: "The fundamental issue is compensation." When trained people leave, adds Jones, the process "creates other problems. You get into a vicious circle. You lose people and then you have to move the rest more often or you have to keep them deployed more...
...Vicious? Rosie Ruiz...