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Even so, last week's meeting between Assad and Hussein was a diplomatic breakthrough. Relations between Syria and Jordan have been stormy since 1980, when the two countries broke over Jordan's clandestine support of the anti-Assad Muslim Brotherhood. Hostilities continued until last August, when Hussein unexpectedly agreed to pursue a rapprochement. Subsequent talks between Jordanian and Syrian officials produced travel and trade accords, as well as agreements to reject bilateral negotiations with Israel and to back a U.N.-sponsored international peace conference...
...flurry of activity in the field, others apparently agree. Since the fall of 1984, scientific papers about superstrings have been streaming forth at an ever increasing rate that now averages 100 per month, and conferences centered around strings are becoming commonplace. Upon hearing of Schwarz and Green's latest breakthrough in string theory, says Steven Weinberg, a physicist at the University of Texas, "I dropped everything I was doing, including several books I was working on, and started learning everything I could about string theory." That task is far from trivial. "The mathematics," he concedes, "is very difficult...
...startled Reagan Administration studies the Soviets' plan for reaching a nuclear-free utopia by 2000 and wonders if the scheme is a genuine breakthrough or simply a propaganda ploy. Kansas Republican Bob Dole, the acerbic Senate Majority Leader, braces for a run at the presidency. America honors the birthday of slain Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. with a national holiday...
...will determine how much is real and how much is propaganda, and there is room for healthy skepticism. But the heat will be on Washington--both for the sake of winning the battle for public opinion and, more important, for keeping alive the hope of a genuine arms-control breakthrough--to come up with a response as imaginative as Gorbachev's. In arms-control negotiations, skepticism is always necessary but rarely sufficient. --By George J. Church. Reported by James O. Jackson/Moscow and Johanna McGeary/Washington
...last week the two aging wunderkinder announced that they want to join forces in an effort to score a breakthrough or two in what they see as the next big thing: computer-based toys. They hope to merge Wozniak's current venture, CL9, which makes remote-control devices for home electronics, with Bushnell's Axlon, the manufacturer of talking bears and other high-tech pets. The deal, which they are still negotiating, could involve a cashless swap of each other's stock...