A Breezy Theme

On the Road to Tokyo, Reagan hails the "winds of freedom" blowing in Asia

Slowly, deliberately, Ronald Reagan made his way westward from Hawaii through Indonesia last week as he headed toward Tokyo for his summit meeting with Western and Japanese leaders. The topics for the Tokyo meeting, which began on Sunday afternoon and was to continue through this Tuesday, were hard and pressing: trade, economic planning, the need to coordinate tough action against terrorism and, in the wake of Chernobyl, international safeguards against nuclear-power catastrophes. But Reagan's three-day stopover on the Indonesian resort island of Bali gave him a chance to highlight more visionary concepts, most notably his belief that the "winds of freedom"...

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