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...Even though Reagan has yet to focus on the details of the framework approach, he has become tantalized by the idea of achieving a breakthrough before the election. He has authorized Shultz to discuss the possibility of a new START approach with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko and Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. Anatoli Dobrynin. If there is to be progress, Reagan stressed last week, it will be achieved through "quiet diplomacy." A number of policymakers emphasized that in addition to cooling the public rhetoric, the U.S. must engage the Soviets in intensive secret talks...
Unlike Andropov, who never traveled to a country that was not under Communist control, Chernenko is not unknown in the West. Still, a number of Westerners who have met him are unimpressed. "He is a dullard," says Malcolm Toon, the tart-tongued former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, who met Chernenko at the SALT II talks in Vienna in 1979. Zbigniew Brzezinski, the Carter Administration's National Security Adviser, remembers Chernenko as "a very cautious bureaucrat, very deferential to Brezhnev, not forceful, not dynamic." The fact that Chernenko was "the least competent, the least likely to innovate [of the contenders]," Brzezinski...
With 50 irate cabbies looking on, the Cambridge Licensing Commission last Tuesday postponed the transfer of 52 taxi medallions from Yellow Cabs of Cambridge to the Ambassador Brattle Cab Company...
Arthur Goldberg, owner of Yellow Cabs, must get commission consent before he can sell his medallions to Wilfred C. Suozzo, the proprietor of Ambassador Brattle Cabs...
...walked up behind the men and fired a 9-mm pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third man escaped injury. Two groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Organization for Liberation and Reform, claimed responsibility for the killings. The next day, the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, 38, was gunned down in similar fashion as he was leaving his Paris residence...