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When I was 12, in 1983, Return of the Jedi was released. By then we had moved to Pine Bluff, Ark., and we attended the Church of Christ three times a week. In the months before my brother and I went to Little Rock to see Jedi open, I prayed the Lord would send me to live with Han and Chewie. I doubted my ability to perform Jedi-like feats, but I figured the Obi-Wan ghost would help me. This was a period when I came home from school with spitballs in my hair...
Perched on a bluff above the confluence of the Yangtze and Jialing rivers, the old city of Chongqing appears to some visitors to resemble the superstructure of a large ship. Situated more than 800 miles from the sea and more than 900 miles from the power center of Peking, Chongqing could easily have come to resemble a rusted hulk aground in an urban backwater, despite its brief fame as Chungking, China's capital city during the war with Japan. Forty years later, however, few other cities in China are undergoing such momentous change and rapid growth...
...needed the Players' Association's permission to take a cut over the maximum 20% to return to Cincinnati." This shift dropped him from a high of nearly $2 million to below $500,000. He smiles. "Where would I be without the Players' Association?" Had the owners elected to bluff through a struck season with minor leaguers, he was agreeable to managing the Reds. But Rose, the player, would have been on strike. "I wasn't going to get the hit that way," he shudders. "I think most people will forgive me for breaking Cobb's record. From the beginning, didn...
...Soviet Union's arms-control negotiators, Viktor Karpov, 57, and Yuli Kvitsinsky, 49. K. & K. have been a team at superpower arms talks since 1982, but U.S. observers have recently spotted below-the-surface tension between the two. Karpov, the chief negotiator at the Geneva arms talks, is a bluff, methodical diplomat, a protégé of Gromyko's with ties to the military and the Kremlin Old Guard. Kvitsinsky, who runs the subordinate space-weapons talks, is closer to the upwardly mobile Soviet technocrats who are being promoted by Gorbachev. While Karpov played a prominent role in hammering out both...
...significant role in our foreign diplomacy since World War II. The theory has developed because the Bomb is very unpopular. But I know it played a role. It played a role in Korea. It played a decisive role in the 1956 crisis in Suez, in calling Khrushchev's bluff and keeping him out of that area. It also played a decisive role in 1959 in Berlin, when Khrushchev was threatening to pull out of the Four-Power pact. It played a role in Cuba, of course, but a different kind of role, because that was when everything, including the presidency...