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When he does meet Ronald Reagan in Reykjavik, Gorbachev will at least have traveled halfway toward achieving his goal of a summit with substance. The American President and his Soviet counterpart have been sparring with each other over the conditions for their next meeting since shortly after they left the Geneva International Center last November. Like Reagan, Gorbachev has a < coterie of conservative critics who see no purpose to a second summit. Some Western observers believe the Communist Party General Secretary was criticized within the Politburo last year for getting too chummy with Reagan, and is now dogged by resistance...
Croquet at the competitive level is very different from its backyard counterpart, the version everybody plays on their grandmother's lawn on the Fourth of July. Yearsley compares it to a "big version of billiards," while Anderson feels it is more "a combination of fishing and equestrian events...
ECONOMICS and athletics have long had a close relationship at Harvard; certainly, the Ec Jock is far more suited to the four letter epithet than his Gov counterpart. Finally, the mythical link between Kirkland House and the Economics Department has been made public...
Still, Reagan insisted on confining the 45-minute discussion to the Daniloff case, which Shultz pronounced a "cloud hanging over" any chance for progress between the two nations. Although neither side budged on the Daniloff issue, Shultz and his counterpart were nevertheless surprisingly upbeat about the results of their two-day talks. "Quite a few items that seemed insoluble a year ago are now working themselves out," Shultz said after the meetings ended Saturday. He cited strategic arms and "especially" intermediate-range missiles based in Europe as the most promising areas for agreement. For his part, Shevardnadze implied that...
...Body Bronze counterpart agrees. "There's a difference between tanning and burning," says Wayne J. Scott...