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...interrupting final campaigning Monday to fly to Venice for a quick stop at the economic summit and a private meeting with Ronald Reagan. She made a similar trip four years ago to the Williamsburg, Va., summit, returning to find that her gesture of statesmanship had led to a boost in the polls, assuring her within days of her second victory. Venice may prove to be the ultimate photo opportunity. When the battlefield is imagery, that could be enough to cinch...
...help raise the nuclear threshold, NATO defense ministers agreed last month to strengthen their conventional forces through a 3% boost in defense spending. Yet most NATO governments have consistently failed in the past to fulfill their military spending commitments. Moreover, with the Gorbachev peace offensive in full swing, it will be difficult to win public support for military budget increases. In West Germany, for example, 72% of respondents in a U.S.-sponsored survey registered approval for Soviet arms control diplomacy, compared with only 9% for U.S. efforts. Says Eberhard Schulz, a West German Sovietologist: "Gorbachev's propaganda has really reached...
...Capitol Hill's resurgent concern about U.S. competitiveness and the hard work of University lobbyists, Harvard scientists can continue their experiments confidentally. After months of budgetary debate, the Reagan Administration and Congress plan to boost funding for such work by an unprecedented amount this year...
After heavy lobbying by higher education groups and institutions, the Senate passed a budget last month calling for a $200 million increase in basic scientific research and a $900 million boost in biomedical research. The House approved an increase of 12 percent for such work...
...goal of the Venice meeting -- to boost global economic growth -- calls for fundamental, and thus more difficult, changes in disparate national economic policies. Even so, financial markets turned optimistic last week as the summit meeting neared. On Wall Street, the Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks rose 48.37 points over the previous week, closing at | 2291.57. The U.S. dollar staged its strongest rally of the year, rising about 2% against the yen and the deutsche mark in two days. Experts wondered, however, whether the financial markets could continue to pay such handsome returns in the face of dismal economic...