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...said, "is less an imminent nuclear attack on us than an increased Soviet willingness to run risks in local conflicts." In such cases, said Kissinger, Soviet superiority in conventional arms could no longer be offset by a credible threat of U.S. nuclear retaliation. "The present Administration has compounded the problem by systematically deprecating the role of power, by canceling or stretching out every strategic program it inherited...
This is, in a profoundly real way, Jimmy Carter's problem. He is so personally and mercifully tied up with the small things and the individual people he meets at whatever level, from the street to the throne, that he cannot act when the larger realities of the world require him to risk lives and fortunes. For all the President's bluster and fuss over three years, he has not taken a single real step across that Rubicon of power, where there is risk, where the solution lies in moving determinedly ahead with no lines of retreat...
...Problem of Expectations...
Though Japan's domestic markets are highly competitive, Japanese businessmen and government officials do not see one another as adversaries but as collaborators on behalf of the economy. They worked together, for example, in meeting the automobile pollution problem early in the 1970s. Reports TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold, who previously was stationed in Detroit: "Unlike the U.S. Congress and successive Administrations, the Japanese did not pick nice-sounding numbers out of the smog and set standards that nobody knew how to meet. Instead, they handled the emissions problem scientifically, taking cost-benefit ratios into account in order...
...didn't want to be seen with me if he could avoid it. His attitude meant I was hot. We walked into the park and sat down. Turning to Dean I said: "Am I correct in assuming that you're the damage control action officer for this problem...