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...went to Vienna hoping to "clarify and confirm," in writing, the agreements reached at the Reykjavik summit. "We wanted to codify the progress made and nail down the remaining problems," said Shultz. The Secretary presented Shevardnadze with the specific wording of U.S. proposals for sharp cutbacks in intermediate-range missiles and their elimination in Europe, a 50% reduction in strategic missiles, a phase-out of underground nuclear testing through a step-by-step process, and a ten-year renunciation of the U.S.'s right to withdraw from the 1972 Antiballistic Missile Treaty restricting space-based defenses. "We asked them...
...York, Said Rajaie-Khorassani, Iranian ambassador to the United Nations, strongly denied an arms-for-hostages deal with the United States. He did, however, confirm that his government was receiving U.S.-made military hardware...
...least one set of statistics appears to confirm an erosion of the middle class, though hardly an upheaval. While the middle class has never officially been defined, the group could reasonably be described as those families with incomes between the Census Bureau brackets of $15,000 and $49,999. According to the census, the proportion of U.S. families in that category, after adjustment for inflation, shrank from 65.1% in 1970 to 58.2% in 1985 (see chart). The trend is far from being a completely odious phenomenon, though. The statistics show that more families departing the middle class have moved...
...Secret Service would not confirm the account, but the White House apparently is equipped with secret sensors that can detect tiny amounts of radioactivity. The high technology has a good purpose. A nuclear device in this era of refined mischief could be as small as a fountain...
Though 65 Senators voted to confirm Rehnquist, there were 33 nays, the most ever for a successful court appointee. The Senate was kinder to U.S. Appeals Court Judge Antonin Scalia, voting 98 to 0 to approve his nomination as Associate Justice...