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...week later, surprisingly swift for the Soviet bureaucracy, the White House received a letter from Chernenko proposing the Shultz-Gromyko conference. "There had been positive signals," says a presidential adviser, "but nothing this explicit." Perle, probably the most influential arms-control critic in the Administration, had his calculations thrown off. Said he: "I'm amazed the Soviets came back to the table so soon. I hadn't expected them until spring...
Instead of using the data to make some coherent argument about the motivation, politics, and success of the antiwar movement the authors content themselves with short and sweet explanations thrown in anyone the laundry list of details...
...Cambridge youths were seen attempting to steal a bicycle from in front of the Hasty Pudding Club last spring. Harvard students notified the Cambridge city police, who soon arrived and administered justice. The two youths, no older than the Harvard students, were thrown against a concrete wall, frisked, slapped around by the police, and thrown in the back of a police car. Bystanders thanked the police for their prompt response, the police thanked the bystanders for their vigilance, and the two criminals were whisked away. The Harvard students then returned to their party, secure in their property...
There was a time when a Navy man talked like a sailor. He cooked in the galley and ate on the mess deck. If he got out of line he was thrown into the brig. But in the 1970s the Navy adopted the language of landlubbers. The galley became a kitchen; the mess deck was termed the enlisted dining facility; the brig was transformed into a correctional facility. Even the snappy BOQ, Bachelor Officers' Quarters, gave way to unaccompanied officer personnel housing...
...delighted and bemused to see the two presidential candidates tear each other apart, especially in the debates [NATION, Oct. 29]. I do not know which man is better. But I do know I like the U.S. because all this is happening without a single stone being thrown...