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Occasionally, patients circumvent this problem, more or less, by marrying. Married couples get to move into larger living quarters, full-sized apartments with kitchens and dining rooms. In contrast, Tony's simple square space with wash basin in one corner and bed in another hardly allow room for a lively...

Author: By Steven Schorr, | Title: The Decolonization of Carville | 3/19/1980 | See Source »

These various considerations help explain why SALT plays so insignificant a role in Soviet strategic thinking. In the voluminous Soviet literature on modern warfare, SALT is hardly mentioned. The impression one gains from reading this material is that from the Soviet Union's vantage point, the purpose of arms limitation...

Author: By Richard E. Pipes, | Title: An Impossible Dream? | 2/21/1980 | See Source »

Carter's ban on sales of high technology and strategic items also faces an uncertain prospect. For the most part, Moscow has avoided buying significant amounts of sophisticated American equipment precisely because it looks on the U.S. as an unreliable supplier?one result of Carter's cancellations of sales of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Grain Becomes a Weapon | 1/21/1980 | See Source »

The Administration is particularly peeved about the help that the Japanese have been giving Iran. In Paris, Vance provided an earful of complaints to Japanese Foreign Minister Saburo Okita, who was in the city for a meeting of the International Energy Agency. A U.S. official charged that Tokyo has allowed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Good Will Toward Men? | 12/24/1979 | See Source »

Ustinov's blast from the pages of Pravda sounded the shrillest note in a Soviet propaganda campaign that has gathered unusual force. The objective: to head off the deployment in Western Europe of nuclear missiles aimed, for the first time, at the Soviet Union itself. The rest of the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EAST-WEST: That Shrill Soviet Campaign | 11/5/1979 | See Source »

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