Foreign policy worries mount
As a presidential campaign draws near, every U.S. Administration makes an extra effort to produce some evidence of progress in dealing with its main foreign policy difficulties. But for the Reagan Administration, the rest of the world is proving decidedly uncooperative. The Administration, indeed, seems trapped in a period of what might be called circular frustration: policymakers go round and round on the same old problems.
On the central issue, relations with the Soviet Union, there has been what one top diplomat called "a whiff or two of movement" from...