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...Angeles Open. That's the first one he mentions. Once in Paris, Palmer drove a ball off the Eiffel Tower and hit a bus. "Close to 400 yds.," he boasts, "mostly straight down." Another time, in Melbourne, he climbed a 20- ft. gum tree to play a backward iron shot -- a "tree-iron," as he pronounced it -- and made a bloody wonderful bogey...
...Gorbachev has obviously spent a lot of time analyzing not just Reagan's positions but his techniques for putting them across. The Kremlin has shown a new adroitness in presenting its case abroad. Reagan and Gorbachev have spent the summer in graceful minuet, each moving a step forward or backward, finding + some movement, or none at all, in the other's proposals, alternately expressing doubts or confidence that a summit is possible. To a Western Europe highly concerned about the nuclear race, the Soviets have seemed more genuinely interested in, or in need of, an agreement. Or is Reagan...
...permitted in Pakistan. Today the government is coming out with its true colors." Thus was Opposition Leader Benazir Bhutto, 33, the popular daughter of the late Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, arrested in a sudden return of repression by President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq. It was a backward step after what had seemed like a gradual revival of democracy in Pakistan this year...
...Marinetti, poet, dandy, ringmaster, publicist and red-hot explainer to the global village -- "the caffeine of Europe," as he called himself. They were all Italian; to be Italian then was to inherit a culture dominated by the weight of the Tuscan and Roman past and by a technologically backward economy based largely on agriculture and craft...
...actually have moved it backward. Reagan indicated to Gorbachev that he wants to loosen the strictures on the development and testing of exotic defenses so that the 1972 pact would permit the U.S. to proceed unfettered with SDI if and when the program is ready to move from the laboratories on earth to experiments in space. That is exactly what the Soviets want to stop, since they would then have to develop expensive offensive and defensive countermeasures. Moreover, for the record at least, Reagan remains committed to eventual deployment...