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...transition to defensive weapons. He was quite conscious, he allowed, that Gorbachev sees a space defense system as simply a cover for achieving the capacity to wipe out the Soviets with a first strike. He wanted to assure Gorbachev that this was not, and would never be, the aim...
...however fleetingly and blandly, was regarded as something of a victory for Reagan. For the first time, the Soviets had agreed to call for substantial cuts in offensive weapons without simultaneously insisting on a ban on Star Wars. Indeed, SDI was barely alluded to in the joint statement. The aim of the arms-control negotiations, it declared, should be "to prevent an arms race in space and to terminate it on earth." The words were the exact ones first used last January by Shultz and former Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko (who was left back home in Moscow) to paper...
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Italian Prime Minister Silvo Berlusconi and Rupert Murdoch were always considered friendly rivals. They have even spent time together at Berlusconi's Sardinian villa. But the competition may be heating up. The Mediaset TV network, owned by the Berlusconi family, is taking direct aim at Murdoch's Sky Italia with an innovative attempt at poaching lucrative soccer viewers. As the world's first free TV network to offer pay-per-view sporting events, Mediaset surprised Murdoch & Co., whose satellite rights until recently meant an exclusive on top-flight matches. "We bought the whole cake, which has now become just...
...pays 46% of the nation's medical bills. Dr. Mark McClellan, former head of the FDA and now director of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, is making paperless medicine mandatory for physicians who want to participate in the agency's potentially remunerative pay-for-performance scheme. The aim, sensibly enough, is to pay doctors for keeping their patients healthy, as opposed to the current fee-for-service basis that simply rewards patient throughput. A priority for McClellan is to improve the treatment of diabetes and other chronic diseases, which absorb a disproportionate amount of health-care dollars. That...