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Glitman and Obukhov will be the point men on intermediate-range nuclear forces (INF) negotiations, which deal mostly with weapons deployed in Europe. Tower and Karpov will square off over intercontinental ballistic missiles in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks. Kvitsinsky and Kampelman will confront each other on the touchiest issue in the negotiations, space weapons. The Soviets hope to knock out President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, better known as Star Wars, while it is still in the research stage. The overall American posture, by contrast, is to reduce existing offensive weapons and worry at a later date about placing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Just Small Talk in Geneva | 3/25/1985 | See Source »

...turners with barbed wire on the covers, Wiesel has kept to his private tasks of organizing memory and troubling a deaf world with his cries. Although he has been called the voice of the 6 million killed in the "Final Solution," few of his more than 20 books directly confront the events of Auschwitz. Often they discuss the testamental prophets (Five Biblical Portraits, Messengers of God), ancient legend (The Golem) or contemporary Eastern Europe (One Generation After). His study of the Soviet Union (The Jews of Silence) was a new jeremiad, going beyond the crimes of the past. "People...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Author, Teacher, Witness Holocaust Survivor | 3/18/1985 | See Source »

...quest for this "emancipaton of the soul" which pushes women to confront the same questions they always have Forster's book has pointed out clearly what those questions are and highlighted some of the difficult choices that women today must make The struggles of the women she portrays have increased the choices available to modern women and have made her circumstances much easter to bear, but they have not necessarily made the choosing any order...

Author: By Naomi L. Pierce, | Title: Female Fighters | 3/7/1985 | See Source »

...begin in the fall, the program will include a series of short skits, acted out by Wellesley students, which confront alcohol-related problems. The audience will discus and revolve the dilemmas, Gleason said, because "people don't learn from lectures. They learn from talking and discussing with each other...

Author: By Jennifer L. Mnookin, | Title: Wellesley to Start New Alcohol Abuee Program | 2/28/1985 | See Source »

...feet off the floor, no combing your hair, no profanity, no clove cigarettes--to it's illogical extreme. As he works over the grill, slicing and frying, he radiates certain anger--feeling each new order is an unwarranted imposition. On occasion he explodes, and leaps over the counter to confront the felon--in this case an unsuspecting clove cigarette smoker: "Get out of here with that fag cigarette...

Author: By Theodore P. Friesd, | Title: The Allure of Cheesesteak and Abuse | 2/22/1985 | See Source »

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