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The campaign has had an effect. Though it was then-Chancellor Helmut Schmidt of West Germany who originally called attention to the imbalance being caused by Soviet SS-20 missiles aimed at Western Europe, his Social Democratic Party has since changed its position and come out against the NATO response...
The rhetorical level between Washington and Moscow has reached unusual levels of acrimony. Both capitals should take care because there is a self-hypnotic effect in rhetoric that could cause one or both to begin to believe their own excessive vituperation and lead to dangers that we ought to try...
Fears of future inflation and monstrous budget deficits were not enough, however, to dispel the public mood of relief and confidence that prevailed as 1983 was drawing to a close. For many people, the most pressing concern at the moment was how to fight past the mobs crowding into shopping...
Returned to France, the marquis remained on the margins of politics until he was 72, when the nation turned to him for leadership after the 1830 rising against Charles X. But Lafayette dithered in restoring order. The Due d'Orléans emerged to become King Louis-Philippe and...
Peering over his half-moon reading glasses during a hastily arranged television broadcast, Argentina's newly elected President, Raúl Alfonsín, last week made the most dramatic announcement of his young administration. In the dry tones of a country lawyer, Alfonsín told his nationwide...