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Last weekend's performance was not as dramatic as the competition for Marchiando Trophy on October 18 and 19. The Radcliffe team fielded two sailors--while other teams had three--because of Fogg's injury. The heroics of Betsy Robinson and Susie Carter led the team to the championship round, only to suffer a loss to Brown...
...should definitely have accepted the deal. After all, restricting strategic defense was an American idea, pursued actively in the Johnson, Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations. If we had reduced Soviet ICBMs by 50%, we would have shut the so-called window of vulnerability. Giving up the chance to get very, very major reductions in the Soviet nuclear threat to pursue pie in the sky just doesn't make sense. They should have asked Gorbachev to clarify what restrictions he was asking for on SDI. Under the ABM treaty, for example, you can test exotic technologies from ground test sites...
...twice; all they could do with Scott was collect allegedly scuffed baseballs and cry to the press. Dykstra's ninth-inning homer saved a third loss, and Umpire Fred Brocklander's mistaken out call at first base forestalled a fourth. Houston's essential run was lost. Slumping Catcher Gary Carter eventually won that one in the twelfth inning with a flash single off flamboyant Reliever Charlie Kerfeld, who had given Carter the back of his glove and hand fielding an earlier zinger...
...people are more qualified to analyze nuclear arms strategy than the author, who served as Director of the CIA under President Richard Nixon, Secretary of Defense under President Gerald Ford and Energy Secretary under President Jimmy Carter. His assessment for TIME of what almost happened in Reykjavik...
Even so, experts testifying last week before the House Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere Affairs were not convinced of Washington's innocence. Robert White, Ambassador to El Salvador under Jimmy Carter, charged that the "CIA bears primary responsibility for U.S. (supply) operations inside the Ilopango airport." White's claim was buttressed by a nine-month report conducted by the staff of Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts. Kerry, who released the study last week, said it "raises serious questions about whether the U.S. has abided by the law in its handling of the contras over the past three years. Until...