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Now that that’s over . . .

The nuclear-freeze movement got its proposition before about one voter in four. Stripped of the little niceties that perhaps one voter in four million understands, the proposition was this: Do you want to die in a nuclear war? Quite a few people thought this was a poor idea, so the freeze was approved by a margin of about 2 to 1. Not quite the steamroller one would expect, since it was unopposed (except by a horrible death, if you voted no), but enough to send media announcers into ecstasy. The comment afterward, some of the oiliest on record, went on and on about the heroic efforts of the freeze workers and the magnitude of their victory. Elsewhere, unseen, the heroic freeze workers of the KGB broke open a few bottles and toasted the endless gullibility of American liberals.

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Now that that’s over . . .

The nuclear-freeze movement got its proposition before about one voter in four. Stripped of the little niceties that perhaps one voter in four million understands, the proposition was this: Do you want to die in a nuclear war? Quite a few people thought this was a poor idea, so the freeze was approved by a margin of about 2 to 1. Not quite the steamroller one would expect, since it was unopposed (except by a horrible death, if you voted no), but enough to send media announcers into ecstasy. The comment afterward, some of the oiliest on record, went on and on about the heroic efforts of the freeze workers and the magnitude of their victory. Elsewhere, unseen, the heroic freeze workers of the KGB broke open a few bottles and toasted the endless gullibility of American liberals.