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...Administration's proposal to outlaw the production and stockpiling of deadly nerve gas and other chemical weapons is just one move in a diplomatic East-West chess game that is still in its early stages. Later this month, Washington is also scheduled to endorse a new NATO proposal at the eleven-year-old negotiations in Vienna aimed at reducing NATO and Warsaw Pact troop levels in Europe. Discussions between the U.S. and the Soviets on such matters as the opening of a new consulate in each nation and resuming cultural exchanges will probably take place within a few weeks...
...Bridge and Chess and "Go" clubs use the Greenhouse area at night on a regular basis. The Chess club refused to allow the Greenhouse to extend its hours; on Tuesday, the club's designated evening. "Extra people create noise and would disrupt out weekly tournaments," said Jonathan S. Yedida '85, president of the club...
...also discussed certain structural and cultural difficulties, primarily continuity of Soviet leadership and goals as opposed to American inconsistency. "They have long-range objectives; we have short-range ones. They play chess; we play...
Farkas adds that the games is "as strategic as chess" because the players must guess their opponents next move while scoring as many points as possible...
...guarded by rosy-cheeked youths who carry automatic rifles (unloaded) and wear the red neckerchief of the Pioneers, the Soviet equivalent of scouts. On their wedding day, young brides and grooms go to war memorials to lay floral tributes to fallen soldiers. On park benches, old men playing chess wear rows of ribbons that attest to their military service...