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...shop. During the President's vacations this summer, either Baker or Deaver is set to help Meese at the California White House. Meese was also responsible in part for getting the President to endorse tax-exempt status for private segregated schools, a policy that Reagan had to abandon after a loud public uproar...
Karpov and his colleagues went to Geneva last week with instructions to reject in the strongest terms the propositions on which the President's START proposal is based. But the Reaganauts are not likely to abandon their proposal so quickly as the Carterites did in 1977 when their own deep-cuts plan was rudely thrown back in Cyrus Vance's face. This Administration is ready, if not eager, to engage in some serious, protracted stonewalling of its own at the disarmament talks in Geneva while it sells the American public on the need for massive rearmament...
...Windsor Castle was far behind the Reagans' chopper. According to White House aides, he upbraided Clark and Baker on the lawn at Windsor Castle, while Queen Elizabeth II was welcoming Reagan. "He went crazy," recalls one presidential assistant. Haig further annoyed Clark and Baker by theatening to abandon the trip and return to Washington...
...Cameroon, also a 2,000-to-1 shot with authoritative London bookies, its cup runneth over. After holding off the Peruvians, Cameroon's "untamable lions" repeated the performance against another respected contender, Poland. Dashiki-clad, singing, whistle-blowing fans from Cameroon cheered their team's offensive abandon. As Polish defenders frantically raced in front of the goal, Forward Roger Milla, instead of passing to an unguarded teammate as a normal soccer player would, kicked away, letting the ball carom off Polish bodies. No goal was scored, but such bizarre tactics stunned the Poles, amused the international press corps...
...Israeli military spokesman told reporters in the southeastern Beirut suburb of Baaba that the PLO guerrillas must abandon their Beirut stronghold or face an all-out Israeli assault...