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Ismat Ullah's expression of polite amiability is oddly out of sync with the fury of his words. In the 20 years he has spent as a Pakistani immigrant in Britain, slurs and rejections have engendered an abiding bitterness. But the mask remains in place. "I keep it all...
No First Use is, admittedly, a major shift from a policy that has remained in place throughout the nuclear age. But it is imperative, at this low point in U.S.-Soviet relations, for the Democrats to move debate beyond the largely cosmetic issue of numbers toward the real weak point...
One result is that the speech may be as notable for what it does not say as for what it does. At most, Reagan will announce only cosmetic steps to reduce the federal deficit, now estimated at roughly $185 billion for the 1985 fiscal year. He has ruled out pressing...
Such reassurances, however cosmetic, are all the more welcome after a Supreme Court decision this month that sent jitters through the ranks of state and environmental officials in coastal areas. By a 5-to-4 vote, the tribunal ruled that the Federal Government can ignore the objections of affected states...
For most of its 4,500 years, the Great Sphinx stood guard over the pyramids of Giza from behind a 14-ft. limestone beard. Now, centuries after unknown forces gave the enigmatic monument a shave, some Egyptian authorities want to restore the Sphinx to its former hirsute splendor. Their interest...