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Reagan tried to distinguish his proposal from a similar but ill-fated attempt by his predecessor to offer something novel to the Soviets. In March 1977, Jimmy Carter sent Cyrus Vance to Moscow with an ambitious scheme to redirect the SALT talks by asking the Soviets to make deep cuts in their existing arsenal of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Like Reagan, Carter had outlined his proposals in public before submitting them formally to the Soviets. Also like Reagan, Carter hoped that the Soviets could be persuaded to dismantle existing weaponry in exchange for U.S. promises not to deploy a planned system...
...makes you know it is foolproof." No major opera house has yet produced a Thomson opera, and the composer is puzzled by the neglect. But in the long run he is philosophical: "I agree with one French critic who said that I am essentially a predecessor." Of what? That is for his successors to decide. "Some artists close things," says Thomson. "I am the kind who opens things...
...primarily the result of the tight-money policy adopted by Paul Volcker, chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, before Reagan took office-though they note Reagan has supported that policy. Some also see the slump as a delayed effect of the vacillating economic strategy of Reagan's predecessor. "I call it a Reagan-Volcker-Carter recession," says Economist Walter Heller, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers in the 1960s...
...early as 1943, Kekkonen suggested that Finnish welfare depended on "neighborly relations with the hereditary enemy" in Moscow. His line was picked up by Kekkonen's presidential predecessor, Juho Kusti Paasikivi, who made it the basis of Finnish postwar neutrality after the Soviets forced a special "friendship treaty" on Finland in 1948. Kekkonen served five times as Paasikivi's Prime Minister in shaky coalition governments from...
...departure from Kania's moderate policies, which he had publicly supported as Premier. Noted a U.S. State Department official: "Jaruzelski believes the same thing Kania believed, that you have to deal with Solidarity." Nonetheless, Jaruzelski's party comrades clearly expected him to show more resolve than his predecessor in restoring discipline to the party, the economy and the public at large...