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...That also touched off the worst recession of the postwar era, bringing unemployment rates of more than 10% (25% in some areas and industries). President Reagan helped end the downturn by cutting taxes in 1981, which created huge deficits but also launched a record boom that hasn't finished yet...
Most Ubiquitous Edible. There are at least 425 shapes and sizes of pasta -- round, square, tubular, flat -- and Americans seemingly craved them all. In the '80s the nation gorged on this basic yet incredibly varied Italian staple. Last year domestic consumption of pasta, from agnolotti to ziti, topped 4 billion lbs. -- nearly 18 lbs. for every man, woman and bambino...
...finding the killer the FBI's No. 1 priority. The sooner the mystery is solved, the better. At week's end another bomb went off, injuring Maryland state circuit court Judge John P. Corderman in his Hagerstown apartment. Whether that bombing was connected to the earlier blasts had not yet been established...
...Yet in the West the era of stagnation was seen as one of Soviet ascendancy -- even, in some key and dangerous respects, of Soviet supremacy. Here was a vast, mysterious country on the other side of the globe from the U.S., the Great Geopolitical and Ideological Antipode. It was believed to be possessed of immense and malignant strength, including the self-confidence, prowess and resources for the conduct of all-out war. Even now, with the Pentagon looking for ways to trim its budget, U.S. defense policy includes a caveat: the West must be prepared for the danger that Gorbachev...
Former Secretary of Defense Harold Brown, a world-class thinker about the unthinkable and nobody's softy, acknowledged back in the 1970s that a Soviet decision to attack American missiles would be a "cosmic roll of the dice." Yet Soviets play chess; they do not shoot craps. Stalin advanced several black pawns and a knight against one of white's most vulnerable squares, West Berlin, in 1948. Nikita Khrushchev tried a similar gambit in 1961, and he was downright reckless over Cuba in 1962. The stupidity as well as the failure of that move contributed to his downfall...