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...hundred and fifty million years ago (is this not the way James Michener would begin?), a depression that would come to be known as the Permian Basin developed in what would come to be known as West Texas. Then, to make a long story short (the demands here are somewhat more telescopic than those Big Jim labors under), there would be dinosaurs and much later there would be fossil fuels. Cow towns called Midland and Odessa would be established, their commercial cornerstones eventually to shift from cattle to the petroleum that lay beneath the desert pocked by what the Spanish...
...would be naive to expect the leaders of two nations with sharply contrasting political and social systems and deeply differing values even to begin to solve these impacted problems in eight hours of talks on Tuesday and Wednesday. But their meeting could at least set the tone for whatever combination of shouting and serious negotiation (it is unlikely to be either/or) will succeed the silence. A whole world will be anxiously watching every eyelid they lift or lower...
Subject to change, the talks are supposed to begin with arms control Tuesday morning, proceed to bilateral issues that afternoon, turn to regional relations Wednesday morning and conclude with human rights. Working parties are painstakingly reviewing 26 topics grouped under the four main headings...
...essential details of arms control. His advisers are either unwilling or unable to make him confront the difficult practical choices. Until they do, it is hard to see how they can offer the President much more than moral support when he faces off against Gorbachev in Geneva, or begin the hard business of translating superpower proposals into progress. --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington
...days later, the winner received his first $70,000 check and a visit from two Immigration and Naturalization Service agents. He was arrested and later freed on $5,000 bond after the INS informed him that it would shortly begin deportation proceedings. If deported, Caballero is still entitled to his winnings. Nevertheless, he wants to stay in San Jose and keep working. "All the time I came here with the illusion of making a lot of money," he said. "I want to make more." Another consideration: since he is not a permanent U.S. resident, Uncle Sam will keep 30% rather...