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...this idea on the record last week. Seeking specific agreements, said the National Security Adviser, "should not become an excuse for not thinking about what is at the heart of our disagreements." As an example of the Soviets' "one-sided negotiating positions," he cited demands that the U.S. abandon Star Wars "even as they pursue the greatest research program on earth. And then, in a masterpiece of chutzpah, they insist repeatedly that ours is a program designed to acquire a first-strike capability." His key sentence: "Without some change in the Soviet approach to security issues, in fact...
After Shahnawaz's burial last week, Benazir promised her supporters, "I will not abandon my political responsibilities." At the same time, however, she conceded, "I will not be able to stay very long in Pakistan." The question being asked by her followers was how long she would dare to stay...
Beyond its admonitions about graduate student teaching and research, the Strauch Report offers no prescriptions for educational policy at the GSAS. Moore will have to chart her own course if she wishes to abandon the laissez faire style of her predecessors and assert herself in the school's academic mission...
Lastly, think of what it did to Pepsi's advertising budget; first forcing the Coke competitor to abandon its highly succesful "new generation" campaign featuring Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie to rush out a new ad proclaiming the death of Coke, and now forcing Pepsi to cancel such advertising with the return of Classic Coke...
...prisoner situations, notably the release of downed U.S. Navy Flyer Robert Goodman in 1984 and possibly the freeing of CNN Beirut Correspondent Jeremy Levin in February. One possible U.S. favor Assad may have in mind in exchange for his latest assistance: a request for U.S. pressure on Israel to abandon its so-called security zone in southern Lebanon...