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Article: 'Jaw-jaw' - part 2.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- April 6, 1984
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THE SUBJECT will not go away, so I come back to it. Were the Western leaders who attended the latest in the current series of funerals in Moscow right to do so? Was President Reagan wrong not to go? What, if anything, do fleeting visits of this kind achieve?
I wonder how many of the leaders who made the trip--principally, Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, Chancellor Kohl, and French Premier Mauroy--had read ex-President Nixon's remarks on the matter? Perhaps the question is unfair, since Richard Nixon's short book (Real Peace: A Strategy for the West) was initially published privately. Now that it is publicly available on both sides of the Atlantic, however, it deserves ...