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...persuade the Soviet Union to reconsider its boycott of this summer's Olympic Games in Los Angeles. But the effort was over before it began. Conferring privately the evening before the meeting, Los Angeles Olympic Organizer Peter Ueberroth and Soviet Sports Chief Marat Gramov found themselves in accord on one point and not much else. Said Ueberroth: "It would be misleading to suggest that we came even an inch closer to a solution." Agreed Gramov: "The decision is irrevocable...
...negotiated solution are possible" in Central America, two of the region's nations announced that they had arrived at exactly that kind of arrangement. After a daylong meeting in Panama City, Costa Rica and Nicaragua signed an agreement allowing multinational inspection teams along their 192-mile border. The accord was a concrete step toward ending tension that began when Nicaragua attacked U.S.-backed contra guerrillas who operate from Costa Rica...
...abandoned the Games, their empire crumbled. If we were to do the same as the Greeks, then we would in effect, admit that our international system is incapable of associating with itself. To throw in the towel would be an acceptance of the futility of striving to achieve diplomatic accord. When the Greeks threw in the towel, accepting that they could no longer get along with each other, their culture deteriorated...
More significant, the U.S. and China reached an accord that would allow American companies to build nuclear power plants in China, an agreement that could be worth billions of dollars to the troubled U.S. nuclear industry. The deal had been three years in the making. The chief stumbling blocks were the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, and the Nuclear NonProliferation Act of 1978, which require foreign buyers to get Washington's permission before recycling any U.S.-provided nuclear fuel. Reprocessed fuel can be used to make weapons. The Chinese were reluctant to make any concessions that would impinge...
Ronald Reagan's ballistic missile merry-go-round simply isn't worth the cost. The President wants us to pursue the mirage of absolute security in an age when weapons of mass destruction make such security impossible. Only myopic could lead us to break a successful arms accord, destroy our European alliance, and spark an arms race for the sake of a new Maginot line which would never work. Spending tens of billions of dollars researching a fatally flawed idea, and perhaps hundreds of billions implementing it would indeed require blindness on a national scale...