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...recurrence of such a tragedy and improve air-traffic communications in the North Pacific, diplomats and aviation officials from Japan, the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the past 18 months have been quietly trying to set up a better system. Last week in Tokyo they reached a preliminary agreement to establish a communications hot line, possibly a telephone link, between Anchorage, Tokyo, and Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East...
Howard Fields, 56, had no intention of changing his ways just because of an unfair regulation. After all, the autoworker had parked in the front lot of Ford's Lima, Ohio, engine plant for 28 years. So when United Auto Workers Local 1219 and Ford last year signed an agreement requiring employees with foreign cars to park in a back lot more than half a mile away from the factory, the old-timer ignored the new rule and continued to leave his 1981 Nissan in the front...
...Cook Islands, to consider a treaty declaring the area between the equator and Antarctica and between Australia and South America a nuclear-free zone. Eight members, including Australia, New Zealand, Western Samoa and tiny Niue (estimated population 3,400), signed the treaty. Four others are expected to ratify the agreement in the near future. Only Vanuatu refused, calling it impractical and ineffective...
Soon after the MGM news broke, Turner arranged simultaneous press conferences in New York City, Moscow, London and Phoenix, which were broadcast live on his SuperStation WTBS, to announce a groundbreaking agreement with the Soviet Union. As Turner grinned at reporters at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, TBS Executive Vice President Robert Wussler clasped hands with Soviet sports officials in Moscow. Turner said that TBS and the Soviets would co-produce and broadcast the Goodwill Games from Moscow next July. The games are expected to draw top athletes from around the world for 160 events, and will be repeated...
Commissioner Ueberroth formally entered the negotiations only after the key compromises had been made, but the final five-year agreement closely resembles a package he had started pushing a week before the strike deadline. Ueberroth chose to take a more visible role in the negotiations than did his predecessor Bowie Kuhn during the 1981 players' strike, which lasted 50 days. Indeed, Kuhn had kept such a low profile that reporters blackly joked that the strike never would have happened if Kuhn had been alive. Like most past baseball commissioners, Kuhn was widely regarded as the owners' man, hired...