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...most successful meeting in a situation that could have been critical for us in regard to our allies." If indeed the European endorsement holds, it was a genuine achievement; it took hard bargaining by Haig in both Washington and Rome. Haig wanted NATO to offer the Soviets both a carrot and a stick-an American pledge to reopen arms control talks, accompanied by a unified Alliance get-tough policy made credible by defense spending. The day before he left Washington, Haig won Reagan's agreement, despite resistance from some hardliners. Soon after he arrived in Rome he met with...
...integration: one semester of free college education at any of Missouri's 30 public campuses in return for each year of participation in the program from kindergarten through twelfth grade. Says Craig Crenshaw, the Justice Department attorney who originally thought up the idea: "It's a tremendous carrot." The head of the St. Louis chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Dr. James A. De Clue, agreed. Said he: "We are totally in favor...
...with a proposal worked up late in the Carter Administration for the development of a three-way "compact" among industry, labor and Government to restore the health of the carmakers. In broad terms, the Reagan Administration aims to use a promise of a curb on Japanese imports as a carrot to get all of Detroit to accept the kind of changes in traditional ways of doing business that Chrysler and its union agreed to in return for loan guarantees. Explained William Brock, Reagan's Trade Representative, who met last week with one of Japan's top trade officials...
Wilson called the plan a "modified free market" saying industries need "a carrot, and not a stick" to reduce their pollution output...
...hired man, Lee Clearwater, put up together. He displays his black thoroughbred, Little Man, a handsome brute that knows its master. From about 30 yds. away the horse responds to Reagan's call, trotting up for a pat on the nose and a piece of carrot...