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...return to the bargaining table, and the new round of talks began March 12. Yet Reagan's most effective argument for extending the MX was basically the same: canceling the program would still send the wrong signal to Moscow and would undercut the U.S. bargaining position in Geneva to boot...
...week who was one month younger than Gorbachev and dropped dead of a heart attack in front of my eyes. Who would have expected that? So we can't say how long Gorbachev will last. He is a man to be admired, an intelligent man and a lawyer to boot, so he should bring back a little order. On top of that, he is an economist, or so the papers say. Yes, he is a man to be respected...
...Icahn's early life as the son of a synagogue cantor in New York City. After studying philosophy at Princeton, the future raider spent two years in medical school, but quit when he realized that he was not enjoying the work--and becoming a bit of a hypochondriac to boot. After a stint in the Army at Fort Sam Houston, he used a few thousand dollars won in barracks poker games to get started on Wall Street. He made $50,000 in the bull market of 1961, then lost it just as quickly when stocks tumbled. To this...
...Before the comp was reminiscent of boot camp and the Castle certainly had a boy's club feeling of machismo," says former President Brien Mc Cormack...
...diplomats that Lyndon Johnson, along with the CIA and the Mafia, had masterminded the plot. Johnson was anathema to Khrushchev. Because he was a Southerner, Moscow considered him a racist (the stereotype of any American politician from below the Mason-Dixon line), an anti-Soviet, and anti-Communist to boot. Further, since Johnson was from Texas, a center of the reactionary forces in the U.S., according to the Soviets, he was associated with the big-time capitalism of the oil industry, also known to be anti- Soviet. He "smells oily," it was said in Moscow...