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Some of the U.S. officials who came to Geneva with Reagan had hoped the final document would include another reaffirmation, that of the antiballistic-missile (ABM) treaty of 1972. Advocates of arms control within the Administration want to seize every opportunity to commit the U.S. to keeping SDI within the bounds of that treaty. Doing so, they hope, might allay Soviet concerns and induce concessions. Why was there no mention of the ABM treaty in the joint statement...
...Philadelphia Daily News Columnist Chuck Stone assigned at least some of the blame to city hall, which is still shaken by last May's bombing of the headquarters of the radical group Move that ultimately engulfed several city blocks in flames. Declared Stone: "When you have the city committing the most violent act you can commit, it legitimizes the violence in other people's thinking...
...years. Japanese retailers viewed Gillette's move as arrogant, and the firm was unable to sell its products on its own. Says Jay Gwynne, president of the consumer health-products division of Warner-Lambert, which owns Schick: "To try to eliminate the Japanese middleman is the quickest way to commit suicide." Schick's single-blade stainless-steel razor was judged superior to Feather's double-blade carbon one, and Schick's razor became the country's best seller...
...company other than Apple (like Dell, iRiver, Creative, etc.). You'll need to check the list of compatible devices to see if it includes yours. And while each has more than one million songs in its catalog, selection varies. Our advice: take advantage of the free trials before you commit. And if you have an iPod, stick with iTunes...
...They strip-search him and briefly make him stand nude. They tell him to bark like a dog and growl at pictures of terrorists. They hang pictures of scantily clad women around his neck. A female interrogator so annoys al-Qahtani that he tells his captors he wants to commit suicide and asks for a crayon to write a will. At one stage, an Arabic-speaking serviceman, posing as a fellow detainee, is brought to Camp X-Ray for a short stay in an effort to gain al-Qahtani's confidence. The log reports that al-Qahtani makes several comments...