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...Administration had finally abandoned its zero option (cancellation of the NATO deployments in exchange for elimination of all SS-20s throughout the U.S.S.R.); it was inching toward a reasonable compromise whereby the NATO deployments would be scaled back in exchange for a reduction in European SS-20s, with more lenient treatment for SS-20s in Asia. In the INF talks, the major obstacle was, and remains, Soviet intransigence...
...Administration had finally abandoned its zero option (cancellation of the NATO deployments in exchange for elimination of all SS-20s throughout the U.S.S.R.); it was inching toward a reasonable compromise whereby the NATO deployments would be scaled back in exchange for a reduction in European SS-20s, with more lenient treatment for SS-20s in Asia. In the INF talks, the major obstacle was, and remains, Soviet intransigence...
Readers took a more hard-line approach on domestic law-and-order issues such as gun control (most opposed it) and the castration of convicted rapists (most favored it). Yet when the lawbreaking gets closer to home, a more lenient attitude emerges...
...lawyers and open-minded newspapers that accept classified ads from couples seeking babies. Federal regulations that are more rigorously enforced elsewhere, like the requirement that state officials conduct a "home study" of the prospective parents' fitness to adopt a child, are routinely waived by South Carolina's lenient family-court judges. In 1982 there were six times as many privately arranged adoptions-many of them made by non-residents-as placements made through the state's official adoption agency. To some, the situation has turned Charleston into a notorious baby bazaar; to others, it has made...
Older historians, it turns out, were more lenient in judging Presidents. Toughest on Hoover, for instance, were those under 40 and easiest were those over 65, the very children of the Depression so often blamed on Hoover. Women historians (only 59 were tabulated) were generally harsher in judging Presidents than the men. For whatever reasons, they were particularly down on Polk and Washington. They rated Carter, L.B.J., Grant and Kennedy higher than...