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Now it emerges that the President's tentative decision contained another major concession to Pentagon hawks. In a confidential letter to West European leaders that was discussed in the corridors of the Tokyo summit last week, Reagan declared his intention to break the SALT II treaty later this year as...
It is a big-top circus, its one concession to modernity being polyvinyl rather than canvas. It is a long, low tent sheltering five rings. In the mornings men and elephants erect it, and in the evenings they take it apart. The drill, for 16,000 miles and 20 states...
Union officials hailed the University's decision as a major concession. "Now [Powers] has reaffirmed the fact that these people have a right to be put to work. He made the right decision," said Dominic M. Bozzotto, president of the Food Service Workers Union, Local 26.
Ronald Reagan, who knows a thing or two about landslides, telephoned from the White House to confess to the triumphant candidate that he was "envious of your margin of victory." By a lopsided 2,166 votes to 799, Actor Clint - Eastwood, 55, had seized city hall in Carmelby-the-Sea...
The fact that he harks back to both World Wars, the Depression and even Edwardian London is not so surprising. Alfred Burin was celebrating his 100th birthday, after all. What stirred up the media last week was that he still has a virtually full-time job, making him apparently the...