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Since the two sides returned to the negotiating table early last year, the Soviets have produced a flurry of proposals setting forth the broad outlines of the socalled grand compromise: Moscow would agree to significant reductions in offensive weaponry primarily affecting its land-based missile arsenal if Washington would agree to curtail its Strategic Defense Initiative, or Star Wars, the plan for a space-based antimissile shield. Gorbachev's letter proposed linking cuts in offensive missiles to an agreement by both countries to honor for at least 15 more years the 1972 antiballistic-missi le agreement, which would confine...
...anti-arms control alter ego Richard Perle fought hard against the modest concessions on offensive weapons ^ and even harder against any concession on SDI. "Anything that gives up strategic defense would be undesirable in every way," Weinberger insisted last week. Even if the Soviets were to reduce their offensive arsenal in return, he added, curtailing SDI would be "a bad bargain for the world." Secretary of State George Shultz and his aides, especially Paul Nitze, have fought just as hard to move pieces rather than merely touch them...
...Brigitte Nielsen (Mrs. Stallone in private life), who is the only witness to one of their crimes. Assigned to protect her, Cobra reluctantly (indeed, spiritlessly) falls in love with her. But this is presented as a distraction from his main line of business, which is to polish his arsenal in preparation for the climax in which he wipes out the whole mob of "sickos" in a single confrontation...
...stopped producing chemical arms in 1969. But Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger has insisted that the U.S. must modernize its chemical arsenal to counter the Soviet buildup of these weapons. Congress has stipulated that funding for the new program is contingent on the assent of NATO allies. Some U.S. Congressmen, however, feel that because the approval came from the defense ministers instead of NATO's political council, it did not meet congressional standards for going ahead with the chemical-arms program...
...reverberations! Megabucks! Didn't work. The crossbreeding produced curious offspring: the low- birth-weight Dragonslayer, the gnarled Krull, the sepulchral The Keep. Most 1980s moviegoers found the landscapes of these films too remote, the quests too familiar, the special effects too rudimentary--no laser blades here, just an endless arsenal of singing swords. Nor did the heroes and heroines of these chivalrous tales have much vitality; they were as pure as toothpaste, and as sexy. How could the Forces of Evil defeat these perfect folk? And how could the modern moviegoer care? Only Conan the Barbarian made much box-office...