Tokyo and After

President Reagan was visibly and audibly happier after the Tokyo “economic” summit than before it. So was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. So was I.

This said, there are degrees and limits to the elation engendered by the unprecedented readiness of the other five summiteers to put their names to a common-sense declaration of common objectives, with special reference to international terrorism. There can be few other subjects in the world that evoke such a generalized reluctance to face facts and spell out the truth.

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President Reagan was visibly and audibly happier after the Tokyo “economic” summit than before it. So was Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. So was I.

This said, there are degrees and limits to the elation engendered by the unprecedented readiness of the other five summiteers to put their names to a common-sense declaration of common objectives, with special reference to international terrorism. There can be few other subjects in the world that evoke such a generalized reluctance to face facts and spell out the truth.