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...statements about reducing the threat of war that concluded the first Gorbachev-Reagan meeting in Geneva last November. In a striking turnaround, Gorbachev seemed to enhance the prospect for a deal on missiles in Europe by stating that the Soviets would not insist that the U.S. first agree to abandon research on a space- based defense system (Star Wars). According to Kennedy, Gorbachev said "in emphatic and unmistakable terms that there are no preconditions for negotiating immediate reductions" in intermediate-range nuclear forces...
...which was also frequented by members of the notorious Murder, Inc. Upon graduating from | Brooklyn Law School in 1962 and going to work as an assistant district attorney, he began to moonlight as legal counsel for some of his acquaintances from the neighborhood. When the D.A. ordered him to abandon his private practice in 1969, Light instead quit to work full time for the Cosa Nostra. He said he received 80% to 90% of his fees in cash--"the best way to get paid...
There were signs that Museveni meant what he said. After past coups in Uganda, victorious troops have raped and plundered with abandon, but this time strict orders were issued against looting, along with a threat to shoot offenders. For the most part, the orderly soldiers of his National Resistance Army obeyed. That alone impressed many observers. The Presidents of neighboring Kenya, Zaire and Rwanda issued a joint communique expressing their satisfaction with the progress the Museveni government had made toward restoring peace and security in Uganda...
...Administration, however, is squarely against anything of the kind. Reagan has rejected such ideas in the past, and is unlikely to abandon his well-known opposition to tax increases. Said Herrington: "I do not believe an import fee is called for. It's a tax." Instead of taxing oil, the Energy Secretary wants to spur exploration by giving oil and gas firms new tax breaks...
Only the Philippine people can decide whether Marcos will be forced to do that. As the day for that decision approached, friends of the Philippines in the U.S. could only watch and wait and renew their vows not to abandon their support for the democratic aspirations of a longtime friend and ally, regardless of what turbulence might lie ahead...