Word: wayed
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...concerned. As seen from Moscow, the eventual military consequences of the Pentagon cuts are less important than the immediate political benefit: after numerous unilateral and unrequited Soviet concessions, the U.S. is at last joining in the process of scaling back the rivalry. President Bush has finally found a concrete way to help Mikhail Gorbachev...
...stays on his present course, he will remain the ruler of a big country with large arsenals. There is enough history ahead for all but the most jaded. Once the malign magnetic field that held us with such power breaks, however, conservatives will have to find new ways to meet history. "Most of us," wrote political philosopher Kenneth R. Minogue in 1963, "are, in some degree or other, liberal. It is only the very cynical, the unassailably religious, or the consistently nostalgic who have remained unaffected." A lot fewer of us think of ourselves as liberal since Minogue wrote those...
...from clear that the new drugs will succeed even in this limited way. None have been tested in a full-scale trial designed to mimic the conditions addicts encounter on the street. Buprenorphine, which is one of the furthest along in testing, is unlikely to receive approval before 1992. Scientists also readily concede that medical therapy fails to address the underlying psychological and social causes of drug abuse. Even if an addict is weaned from one drug, they say, he will very often take up another. A federal study released in August found that as many as 47% of patients...
...meeting where they simply sat back and talked. How do you put your feet up when the deck beneath you is trembling and the winds are howling, in Marsaxlokk Bay and throughout the tattered Soviet empire? This first Bush-Gorbachev summit, which the American President initially proposed as a way to restart the becalmed U.S.-Soviet relationship, was now also the first to take place in the uncertain new world ushered in by the upheavals shaking Eastern Europe. And if this meeting was to be a step in shaping the future, there could be no more appropriate setting than...
...that it could do little to reverse in any case. Meanwhile, the U.S. is in no better position to impose its will on its robust NATO allies, especially a West Germany that has become the engine of change on the Continent, pouring the deutsche mark into Eastern Europe the way the dollar once flowed to the Western nations under the Marshall Plan. All through the summit the German question hung in the air, although the two leaders agreed to keep their public remarks on Eastern Europe to a minimum...