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Even if the President manages to establish a single negotiating strategy for his Administration, arms-control agreements will surely be elusive. Chernenko's health and his mastery of the Soviet state remain uncertain. The Kremlin may simply want to observe the forms of negotiation for propaganda purposes. "We're not there yet," concedes a White House adviser, with epic understatement. "It may take the whole second term to get there...
...Washington, Moscow and European capitals last week, the general reaction was the same, a kind of prudent hopefulness, positive but well short of jubilant. The distance between the U.S. and the Soviet Union had become vast and worrisome. Even an uncertain plan to re-engage is better than hostile solitude. "The main thing is that the talks are taking place," sums up Sir Geoffrey Howe, the British Foreign Secretary. "But don't let's have any terrifically high expectations of sudden change. It's going to be a very long business. It will require...
...good intentions to restore U.S.-Soviet relations to something approaching an even keel. "The problem for us has been translating policy intentions into practical steps," admits a State Department official. "We have not resolved the internal impediments there yet." For their part, the Soviets are apparently hamstrung by the uncertain leadership of the aging and ailing Politburo. They seem capable of responding only tentatively to overtures from the U.S. Shultz, for example, has made no secret of his desire to visit Moscow for talks with Soviet leaders early next year. At Indira Gandhi's funeral, when Soviet Premier Nikolai...
...uncertain how much influence the letter will have on an increasingly independent-minded American Catholic laity. Says the Rev. Richard McBrien, chairman of the theology department at the University of Notre Dame: "Now that so many U.S. Catholics are in the management class and enjoy a more positive economic situation, Catholic social teaching is no longer 5 something perceived as supportive but as a challenge. Many Catholics in business and government will be among those challenged by this pastoral...
...United Nations, America would walk out too. He charmed and soothed the congregation. The cameras picked him up; they picked him up again at lunch, eating apricot kugel (a pudding) at the rabbi's home immediately thereafter. The television "bites" that evening warmed the hearts of thousands of uncertain Jewish voters in middle-class Long Island; the Jewish vote was essential if he was to carry New York...