Earl C. Ravcnal, in The New York Times Mugazi~ze (March 6, 1983), 229
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Budget-minded members of Congress who favor trimming Pentagon outlays are whittling while Rome burns. The only way to control de- fense spending and shore up the ailing U.S. economy is to abandon the 35-year-old U.S. strategy of "containing" Soviet global expansion.
So argues Ravenal, professor of international relations at George- town University. The Reagan administration's...