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...Soviets insisted in Iceland that the treaty be "strengthened" to confine SDI research to the science lab. The first official statement that this was the Soviets' goal came in Gorbachev's interview with TIME in August of last year, when the Soviet leader said Moscow would not object to "fundamental research" on new space weapons. In the end, his definition of permissible research could not be reconciled with Reagan's plans to push ahead with...
Although Kalb, 64, played no part in the apparent disinformation campaign, he was uncomfortable as soon as he saw reports that the Government had planted false stories in August about Gaddafi's new plans for terrorist action and U.S. preparations to retaliate. He grew even more upset after Shultz defended the Administration by quoting Winston Churchill's World War II remark about using a "bodyguard of lies" to protect the truth from the Nazis. After a few days of soul searching, Kalb met with Shultz, then resigned the next...
Bhutto has thus far failed to transform her personal popularity into political power. When she and other People's Party leaders were arrested in August during a government crackdown, the party called for a nationwide protest. Riots followed in Karachi and rural Sind province, the Bhutto family's traditional power base, but there were no large-scale demonstrations elsewhere. Some opposition leaders criticized Bhutto, who was kept in jail for 25 days, for forcing a premature confrontation. Leftists in her own party complained that she had refused to engage in anti-American rhetoric or to blame...
...include $13.2 billion worth of oil and gas holdings. Many of those energy ventures, like the $6 billion acquisition of Marathon Oil in 1982, were engineered by strong-willed Chairman Roderick precisely to raise the ante for would-be raiders. With the steel and energy businesses reeling, Roderick last August decided to pick a fight with the United Steelworkers over pay-and-benefit concessions. The resulting 16-plant walkout, involving some 22,000 U.S.W. members, has been ugly at times; strikers have blocked railway spurs at mills to prevent the sale of steel from the company's stockpile...
...amid a rising tide of complaints from customers inconvenienced by the protection techniques, the biggest makers of personal-computer software seem to be giving up. In August Lotus began selling disks that enable corporate customers to strip protection from its best-selling 1-2-3 program. Ashton-Tate quickly followed suit, abandoning copy protection for all its products. Said Chairman Edward Esber: "Sooner or later, you've got to trust your customer." Last week Microsoft announced that it is "going bare" on the last of its business programs, leaving protection only on its popular Flight Simulator game...