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Moscow refused to rise to the bait. Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze, following Reagan to the General Assembly rostrum by only two hours last Thursday, kept his government's focus almost exclusively on arms control. Repeating Soviet proposals for sweeping reductions in nuclear weapons that the U.S. regards as promising but deceptive, Shevardnadze issued what amounted to a dare to the U.S.: "Are you ready, as we are, to scrap hundreds of missiles and aircraft, thousands of nuclear charges? Say yes and we shall certainly be able to agree on verification." Shevardnadze also renewed the Soviet demand for abandonment...
...Jews because they crucified Christ. But Farrakhan has not forgiven them, and therefore he is not comparable to Christ, as he pretends to be. True Christians do not hate Jews and will not join forces with those people who do. Steven and Carolyn Bray Rye, N. Y. Vend-A-Bait...
...Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, speaking from Israel, accused the press of creating tension that didn't exist between the U.S. and Israel. Diplomatic guests were invited to concede that the maneuvers were all "phony talk" and charades. The day the hostages' release was announced, ABC's Sam Donaldson tried to bait former Undersecretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger: "The terrorists won, right?" Many viewers must have cheered those guests who stood their ground...
...Thaksin hasn't taken the bait. While the violence continued last week with a spate of bombings and shootings that left four people dead, the Prime Minister ruled out the idea of retaliating with force against the insurgents. At the same time he ordered a dramatic increase in security at the nation's airports, embassies, and major commercial and tourist centers. Last week, hundreds of checkpoints and surveillance cameras were set up across Bangkok, including on Khao San Road, a tourist strip popular with backpackers. "We must remain vigilant," says one senior military intelligence official. "[The militants now] have...
...Communications Daily in Washington, by night publishes an electronic broadsheet called CyberWire Dispatch, in which he tells readers what he thinks is really going on. Last April he investigated an Internet advertisement offering $500 or more just for receiving junk E-mail and uncovered what he called a bait-and-switch scheme operated by "a slick direct-mail baron" in Ohio. He wrote a story headlined JACKING IN FROM THE P.T. BARNUM PORT and dispatched it to the Net. He was promptly sued for libel. Whatever the truth of the story -- or the merit of the suit -- Meeks now faces...