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...that it could not afford to be the obstacle to further negotiations. Moscow evidently concluded that stonewalling was getting it nowhere. Its walkout from the 1983 bargaining failed to stop or even slow the deployment of U.S. missiles in Western Europe, and its long refusal to resume negotiations without rigid preconditions only made the Soviets look obstreperous. Washington similarly could not turn down a halfway reasonable Soviet offer without arousing a storm of protest from allies, Congress and the American public. Summarizes one American official: . "We both needed to come away the good...
...booklet stressed productivity as the solution to China's ills. According to Deng, every worker must "find a thousand and one . ways to make the country prosperous," because "when our state is powerful, all will be well." A day later Premier Zhao Ziyang announced in a speech that the rigid wage system for government workers would be loosened to reflect individual merit. Combined with the government's plans for imminent price decontrol through the removal of state subsidies, these policies represented the most sweeping--and riskiest--steps yet in the piecemeal revolution Deng is pursuing...
BECAUSE OF this confusion over where to draw the line, there are some pro-lifers who would advocate no exception for self-defense. But if they are going to impose such a rigid and dogmatic standard, which would mean the death of the mother, they must show why abortion is worse than murder...
...brewing magnate and backer of conservative causes. Today it receives about a third of its $ 10 million annual budget from foundations, many of them begun by ideological sympathizers like Pittsburgh Moneyman Richard Mellon Scaife and Industrialist John Olin. Another third is contributed by business corporations, though Heritage's rigid opposition to Government regulation and protectionism has angered executives of some major corporations that profit from such measures. The final third comes from 130,000 individual donors...
...negotiating table. Nonetheless, one has to wonder how the White House can escape their past rhetoric on the issue. Unless the Soviets agree to on-site inspection--unlikely in the extreme--the Reaganites will have to accept that there is value to an arms control agreement with less rigid guidelines on this issue. They show no signs of doing this...