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...letter bore 53 signatures, including those of the Minister of Culture, the Deputy Minister of Defense, the Chief of Staff of the armed forces, the commander of Interior Ministry troops, the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, two senior Communist Party officials and a collection of writers...
Things moved very fast after that. If Gorbachev was the final policymaker, Shevardnadze was the executor of his wishes as Eastern Europe freed itself and lingering regional disputes were defused in southern Africa, Central America and Southeast Asia. Negotiations that had been stalled for years or decades , suddenly bore fruit: intermediate-range missiles had already been abolished in 1987, but a treaty mandating major reductions in conventional forces in Europe was signed last month; and the START pact cutting strategic nuclear forces is to be signed in February...
...Harvard men's basketball team's game against Holy Cross last night at Briggs Cage bore remarkable similarity to its season so far. Only one phrase could describe it: "slow out of the blocks...
...most elegant short novels of the century, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, wastes not a word in this, her 19th, novel. With brief snatches of conversation, 10 characters at a London dinner party are introduced with such clarity that the reader knows who would be a bore to sit next to and who will drink too much...
...ROCK (ABC, Wednesdays, 10 p.m. EST). Steven Bochco's much hyped experiment seems doomed unless the ratings pick up. Catch it while you can: the station- house drama is compelling, a few musical numbers have clicked, and the rest of the fall season is a bore...