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...wrong, the USSR always in the right. As long as the discussion centers around the arms race and international affairs. Arbatov's line of argument is at least plausible. But when the authors turn to comparative human rights and the drawbacks of the Soviet social system, the Soviet balloon pops...
HOSPITALIZED. David Niven, 73, debonair British actor, bestselling autobiographer (The Moon's a Balloon, Bring On the Empty Horses) and novelist (Go Slowly, Come Back Quickly); ostensibly for treatment of a digestive problem; in London. Niven suffers from a progressive neuromuscular disorder reported to be the incurable amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig's disease, which has left him with a speech impairment and partial use of his left hand...
...Quartermaine is concerned, these are like whispers in the anteroom of his mind. The thunderclap comes when he gets the sack after two decades at the school. "O Lord," he says like a last gasp of wind escaping from a toy balloon. He cannot comprehend it, and such is Ramsay's control of the nuances of his part that the playgoer is as stricken...
When Congress passed the nickel gas tax, designed to save the nation's crumbling highway system, it offered a trade-off to the depressed trucking industry. To be sure, truckers will be paying more not only for fuel but also for user fees, which will balloon from $210 a year to $1,900 (in 1987) for the biggest rigs. But in return they will now be allowed to drive outsize double-trailer trucks on the full length of the interstate highway system and on most of the nation's 230,000 miles of "primary" federal and state roads...
...rumors of progress, saying a Soviet offer "may be a step in the right direction." The West German Cabinet refrained from public comment on the matter, but officials in Bonn privately expressed disappointment at the U.S. Administration's outright rejection of what was seen as a Soviet trial balloon. Although French President Mitterrand went out of his way to tell Shultz that he firmly backed the U.S. negotiating stance, he has said that he thought the outcome could be somewhere between the opening U.S. and Soviet positions. Conceded a U.S. policymaker: "It is the long-anticipated next move...