Word: apartness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even as the superpowers were agreeing on procedure, there was a new glimpse into how far apart they are on substance. It was contained in a document made public by Paul Nitze, 78, special arms-control adviser to Shultz and President Reagan, outlining the "strategic concept" behind proposals that Kampelman will present in Geneva. The U.S., the statement said, "should seek a radical reduction in the number and power of existing and planned offensive and defensive nuclear arms, whether land-based, space-based or otherwise...
...most ambitious of the efforts was started three weeks ago by General Motors. The giant automaker launched Saturn Corp., a separate company apart from the main GM structure, to produce a new subcompact car, starting in 1987. General Motors Chairman Roger Smith said that he wanted the new subsidiary to be free of the mother company's entrenched procedures. Saturn will have its own engineering and design staffs and its own contract with the United Auto Workers. It is to be a test track for new ways of making, selling and servicing cars. Saturn will, in effect, be an entrepreneurial...
...leadership. "It's a good idea," said Dole of the tax plan. "It would be a great legacy for Reagan to leave the country. But it's a big, big undertaking." More urgent to the G.O.P. Senators is deficit reduction, an issue that Reagan has blithely walked away from. Apart from Agriculture Secretary John Block's successful appeal to win back part of the $1.2 billion in farm-subsidy cuts, the President's fiscal 1986 budget proposal has changed little since before Christmas. Boxed in by his campaign pledge to leave Social Security untouched and his refusal to raise taxes...
...with Secretary of State George Shultz. To be sure, it was only an agreement to talk some more--specifically, to resume formal arms-control bargaining at a time and place to be selected within a month. Moreover, the U.S. and Soviet positions entering those new negotiations are very far apart; there is no assurance that they can be harmonized. Nonetheless, the similar statements by Gromyko and Reagan pointed to a tacit understanding that the nuclear superpowers should at least put aside polemics while searching for a compromise...
...Rarely, apart from assassinations of the famous, has the act of a single anonymous person caused such a stir. Mild-mannered Bernhard Goetz gets on a New York City subway. Four young toughs surround him, asking first for a match, next a cigarette, then $5. He pulls a gun, shoots them all, two in the back. He runs away, then nine days later turns himself in. The town goes wild for him. Dubbed the subway vigilante, he is the talk, the toast, of every radio call-in show from Miami to San Diego. The outpouring of popular support becomes...