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To Ronald Reagan and his entourage, the summit meeting in Iceland looked like the perfect photo opportunity. Three weeks before the midterm elections, Reagan would be pictured shaking hands with the smiling Russian in his Fifties fedora. The president would be portrayed in the media as an earnest peacemaker, diligently searching for ways to end the nuclear-arms race. This time, though, the photos turned out badly. When he emerged from his bargaining sessions with Mikhail Gorbachev, the president looked stung, like a small boy who had burned his fingers playing with a light socket. Reagan came home empty-handed from Iceland,...

Virginia Democratic Senate Candidate James Webb, who is a fmr. Sec. of the Navy, called for a draft during the buildup to the first Gulf War in 1990, while criticizing it. Someone should ask him now, Mr. Webb, do you support bringing back the draft, or were you wrong then? Read below: **************************************** Buildup in Gulf Called `a Mistake' Military: A former Navy secretary says attacking Iraq would compound the error of committing more troops to the region Los Angeles Times (pre-1997 Fulltext). Los Angeles, Calif. Nov 29, 1990 A former Navy secretary today called President Bush's 430,000-troop buildup in...