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...Quincy St., 128 feet along Cambridge St., and carries a $6 million price tag. The New York Times calls it "the architectural event of the 1980s," but some say the striped building looks more like a parking garage. About a year and a half ago, President Bok tried to cancel plans to build it. And it may never get the connecting bridge the University wants to protect and transport its priceless contents...
...Gaston enters the game as a player himself soon enough. Calling to cancel an inconvenient appointment for the Baron opportunity answers, and her name is Maria. Maria herself is only a spectator of Madame Baltin (Lynne Wintersteller), and like Gaston she wants no longer simply to observe life but rather to live it like a lady--"to take two baths a day, go riding, and cheat on her husband in the afternoon...
...military and foreign policy. Harkin, who has won five successive terms in a Republican district in southwest Iowa, has tried to deflect criticism of his opposition to a constitutional amendment banning abortion by proclaiming, "If we are truly concerned about respect for life, we should enact a nuclear freeze, cancel the MX missile and stop sending arms to Central America...
...public appearances indicate an effort on the part of the leadership to keep his image at center stage. Indeed, some analysts speculate that such recent Soviet actions as the harsh treatment of Dissident Andrei Sakharov and the pressure brought to bear on East German Party Leader Erich Honecker to cancel a trip to West Germany are similar bids to reinforce the regime's monolithic authority. Another such incident may have been the sudden announcement two weeks ago that Moscow's outspoken Military Chief of Staff and Deputy Defense Minister, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, had been replaced. Last week...
...force. Later Reagan proposed an "interim solution": if the Soviets would reduce the number of SS-20s, the U.S. would deploy fewer than 572 missiles, but still match the remaining SS-20s warhead for warhead. Moscow offered varying reductions in the number of SS-20s, if the U.S. would cancel its entire deployment. One proposal was to cut back to 162 Soviet missiles, matching the number in the independent British and French nuclear forces, which the U.S. insisted should be left out of the bargaining. The Soviets painted themselves into a corner by vowing never to accept the stationing...