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* THEIVE'S WORLD *
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* 616/344-2718 *
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* typed by the *
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* DAREDEVIL *
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THE BIG PICTURE
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(The Iceland Summit)
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by A. Whitney Brown
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from Sat. Night Live
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Preface: I feel that this is finally a good view of how the two superpowers
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act towards each other.
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Well, my friends, the broad brush strokes of the big picture are being
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painted in Iceland this weekend. And if this one looks anything like the last
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one it should have about as much action as a C-SPAN special. You see it really
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isn't even a summit, it's more of a personal get-together. And of course for
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Gorbachev a chance to enjoy some warmer weather. They probably won't actually
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sign anything, oh, they might get as far as writing their names in the snow
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together. Sort of a practice for when a real treaty comes along. But we
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haven't gotten a good deal out of the Soviets since we bought Alaska from them
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for 7 million dollars, which is probably why they are so cautious about making
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any more deals. Oh, I know they don't bring it up much anymore, but I'm sure
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the still feel a little gipped about the whole thing. Especially since the
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Romanovfs blew the whole wad on fabrage' eggs and tea parties for Rasputin. On
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the American side the right wing is all concerned that Reagan is going to lose
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his grip and do something stupid like giving back Barishnykov. Whereas the
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Russian right wing, which is actually the left wing over there, is just as
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worried that Gorbachev will do something stupid like taking back Yakchov
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Shmirnov. The one thing the Soviets do want seems to a nuclear test ban
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treaty. Something every American president since Harry Truman has tried to
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get. Reagan, though, marches to a different drumer he says that if we are
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going to have nuclear weapons we should test them to make sure they're safe.
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It's good logic. I mean the last thing you want in the middle of armagedon is
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some kind of accident. Now when I put all of this into the big picture I have
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to say the whole nuclear issue is BLOWN way out of proportion. I have a
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feeling our descendants are going to look back at this whole nuclear arms
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brouhaha in a few generations and laugh their feelers off. And when it comes
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down to it I would almost rather die in a nuclear misunderstanding with three
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or four hundred million of my fellow citizens than I would alone in the gutter
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somewhere. But I guess that's basicly because I'm a people person. And that,
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my friends, is the big picture.
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