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...great white shark ever taken on a sporting rod and reel. Frank Mundus, 60, and Donnie Braddick, 30, had spotted a group of great whites feeding on the carcass of a whale about 25 miles south of Montauk, N.Y., and mobilized for battle. But the monster did not immediately abandon the whale in favor of the crew's whiting , and butterfish bait. "We were offering him a lollipop when he had the whole candy store," says Mundus. He turned the task of landing the shark over to Braddick because "I ain't no spring chicken"; after a two-hour struggle...
...name of the mystery ship was not immediately known. Canadian officials said initial reports indicated the people in the lifeboats had been forced to abandon the ship, but there were language problems and it was not known...
...missiles to an agreement by both countries to honor for at least 15 more years the 1972 antiballistic-missi le agreement, which would confine SDI to laboratory research and prohibit development, testing and deployment. As Reagan was taking flak at home and abroad for announcing that he planned to abandon the SALT II treaty, Gorbachev showed new signs of flexibility at the Geneva arms-control talks...
Although billed as the culmination of a two-month "reassessment" of U.S. policy, the speech was actually a reassertion of the President's policy of constructive engagement, a call for continuing efforts to persuade rather than pressure Pretoria to abandon apartheid and speed efforts to prepare for power sharing with South Africa's black majority. By turns defiant and defensive, Reagan seesawed between condemnations of apartheid as "morally wrong and politically unacceptable" and qualified praise of South African leaders for bringing about "dramatic change." He denounced the "Soviet-armed guerrillas of the African National Congress," the banned but influential black...
Poindexter botched the handling of an admittedly difficult White House switch on SALT II in May: Reagan's tentative decision to abandon the unratified treaty's limits on various strategic weapons. The NSC chief allowed news of the change to leak from a critical forum: a meeting of NATO foreign ministers. He refused to brief the press on the matter, leaving a less expert White House spokesman, Larry Speakes, to fumble with explanations. Poindexter was also blamed for failing to get the nuances across to the President, who gave highly confusing answers to questions at a press conference...