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Reagan's call for arms control had another purpose as well: to defuse public sentiment for an immediate freeze by both the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. on the testing, production and deployment of nuclear weapons. The President feels this would serve to seal what he claims is the Soviets' present strategic advantage...
...claque that got him where he is. Some believe that last Christmas, when Reagan was leaning toward increased taxes, he came back on course after a few dinners with the "kitchen cabinet." On his 30th wedding anniversary last week, friends gave him a new tractor lawnmower with the Presidential seal...
...glittering wealth was attributable not so much to exotic spices as to commonplace salt, which Venetians exchanged in Constantinople for the spices of Asia. In 1295, when he first returned from Cathay, Marco Polo delighted the Doge with tales of the prodigious value of salt coins bearing the seal of the great Khan...
...that Reagan and his advisors have been sniffing for some time. Yet even if one accepts this naively Manichean world-view, it is increasingly obvious that the great arms grab beg is securing few benefits for the U.S. The $8.5 billion Awacs deal, heralded as the coup that would seal the U.S. Saudi alliance, is already looking like a debacle. Within weeks of the Senate's narrow approval of the sale, members of the Saudi ruling family declared that, contrary to the views of the Reagan administration, their true enemy is Israel, not the Soviet Union. More recently, the Saudis...
...diplomatic way, was referring of course to Nancy Reagan's celebrated $209,508, 220-place, 4,372-piece set of Lenox china, paid for last year by the Maryland-based Knapp Foundation. Used for the first time last week, the new dinner service, with a raised presidential gold seal in the center of the plates and a red-and-gold lattice border, was accompanied by Morgantown crystal from the Kennedy White House and vermeil flatware purchased during the Monroe Administration. When one fretful guest reminded President Reagan of a Greek custom of breaking plates, Ronnie smiled, then said...