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Harvard Perkins Professor of Mathematics John T. Tate said recently that although a number of mathematicians--including, himself--have solved specific cases of the conjecture. Faltings' work is far more broad, applying to all polynomial equations...
...document in question consists mainly of a series of commitments to hold, over the next three years, further international meetings aimed at addressing such issues as disarmament, international security and human rights. The Madrid draft agreement also includes the broad declarations of respect for human rights provisions that buttress the Helsinki Final Act. Among the values mentioned: freedom of religion, the right to form free trade unions, and "the freer and wider dissemination of printed matter"-a euphemistic reference to freedom of the press. Said President Reagan of the document: "Together with the Helsinki accords, this agreement sets forth...
...three months, fell victim to the deterioration of détente. The original Helsinki agreement was hailed as a diplomatic landmark. In essence, it traded de facto Western recognition of post-World War II boundaries in Europe for a host of cooperative understandings, and for Moscow's broad endorsement of a number of human rights concerns. Yet many Western diplomats now describe the Helsinki agreement as "a mess." Despite the restrictions contained in the accords, notably clauses respecting national sovereignty and rejecting interference in the affairs of sovereign states, the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan and encouraged Polish authorities...
Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher indicated as much in a letter last February to Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang. The letter did not explicitly concede sovereignty, which London wants to hold as a bargaining chip, but it did, in the words of a Western diplomat, send the Chinese "a very broad signal." As the diplomat loosely paraphrased it, the letter said: "We know you will gain sovereignty, but before we put things down in black and white let's see what you have in mind for administering Hong Kong...
...special quality of Richard is not his glacial cruelty or that he has some half a dozen people butchered to achieve the crown but that his mere presence instills fear in all, generates a nervous electric tension with every crooked step. Even his broad streak of sardonic humor (said to be shared by Stalin) is chilling...