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Reagan's instructions are much briefer in the two sets of discussions on offensive weapons at Geneva: the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), which deal with intercontinental ballistic missiles, and the intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which cover medium-range missiles. The instructions are also broader than those given in the past in terms of bargaining flexibility, introducing a concept called "ultimate outcomes." Under it, strategists in Washington decide on the overall goals for reducing weapons levels but allow the negotiators in Geneva, under the direction of Kampelman, considerable maneuvering room on how to achieve them. Said McFarlane: "Never...
...blockbuster novel, short-story writers have had a hard time supporting their habit. While Novelists John Updike and Saul Bellow can afford occasional forays into the briefer forms, a hard-bitten short-story adept like Stephen Dixon, 48, has had to toil as a bartender, waiter and pajama salesman to pay for the privilege of persisting in an unprofitable genre. But a boomlet in short fiction seems to be at hand. Publishers are wagering in increasing numbers that storytellers can attract readers beyond the pages of the little magazines...
Readers who buy this week's Washington-area press run of 200,000 copies a day will get a 40-page package including national and foreign news, a business section more consumer-oriented than the Journal's, extensive coverage of television, briefer reports on the arts, law, religion, science and other "soft news," plus lots of sports. Gannett promises to provide a play-by-play of each run scored in every major league baseball game. To keep sojourners abreast of events back home, the paper has a two-page spread of news items from each...
...initial draft, the Bernardin panel built upon the hierarchy's briefer statement in 1976 against the arms race. The drafters unanimously agreed on: 1) a condemnation of any first use of nuclear weapons or the threat of first use; 2) a ban on deployment of such weapons against civilian populations, even in retaliation, and even against military targets if massive civilian casualties would result; 3) a call for an immediate multilateral freeze (without using that political label) in weapons production and deployment; and 4) experimental disarmament steps by the U.S. alone to see whether the Soviets would join...
...bill for hard liquor has also decreased because more people are drinking wine than in previous years. Briefer said...