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...below the surface. Earlier this month, a small band of young men terrorized families living on the main residential road in St. George's for three nights in a row. Says Jamaican Educator Beverly Steele, whose home was attacked during the spree: "This is the aftermath of a breakdown in law-and-order...
...missiles in Western Europe. This time, however, Moscow's methods differed. Rather than breaking START off completely, the Soviets had placed the talks in a more easily reversible state of indefinite suspension. Nor was the stoppage accompanied by polemical gestures from Yuri Andropov as happened after the INF breakdown, when statements were issued in the Soviet leader's name threatening military countermeasures to Western deployment...
...Soviets had telegraphed their maneuver days in advance. At an unusual Moscow press conference, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of Staff of the Soviet armed forces, used colored charts and a pointer to illustrate how, in the Soviet view, U.S. proposals at START were moving "in the same direction"-toward breakdown-as the foundered INF negotiations. Ogarkov reiterated the principal Soviet START proposal: a ceiling for both sides of 1,800 "strategic launchers," consisting of intercontinental ballistic missile silos, submarine-launched missile tubes and intercontinental bombers...
...three or four minutes, there was no computer at all steering the orbiter. The failure was an echo of earlier difficulties with the IBM-built machines, including a breakdown that caused a last-minute postponement of the first shuttle flight...
...MIDST of last week's second talks breakdown, the Reagan Administration shared no misgivings about the dreary state of affairs. In a press conference that followed the Soviet decision, President Reagan said. "I think this is more encouraging than a walkout and simply saying they won't be back. "In answer to a later question, he expressed his hope that a summit discussion might be in the offing in the near future. But the Reagan response showed how complacent the Administration is toward relations with the Soviets, which have now fallen to perhaps their most serious depression ever...