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...were alive with discussion among some 5,000 pupils. About 1,000 teachers and 700 student teachers have been trained in handling the course, with another 2,300 scheduled for training in the coming year. Additional materials are now in preparation for elementary and junior high schools. An Arab counterpart to the Jewish program has been prepared for introduction later this year. In October an Arab-Jewish television series modeled on a long-popular U.S. situation comedy, All in the Family, is tentatively scheduled to come out over the Israel Broadcasting Authority, using ethnic differences as material for humor...
...second six-week phase of the arms-control talks began in midweek, Max Kampelman, the chief U.S. negotiator, said that he had returned from Washington armed with "negotiating flexibility"; his Soviet counterpart, Viktor Karpov, described himself as a "practical optimist." Nonetheless, the prognosis for progress was gloomy. Reagan shows no inclination to back down on Star Wars. Indeed, two U.S. arms-control officials suggested last week that the 1972 antiballistic-missile treaty might have to be revised to accommodate space technologies. As Brandt said after his Moscow visit, "It will be very, very difficult to find a common denominator...
...John is steady and meticulous," his counterpart comments. "I'm more flamboyant and he keeps me from getting carried away...
...three realized that the sun's counterpart, if it existed, would have to be like no other companion star ever identified; it would travel in an enormous elliptical orbit three light-years across that would periodically take it farther from the sun than the distance between any known binary stars. Because it has not been identified in the four centuries since astronomers began using telescopes, it must be very small and dim, perhaps a red dwarf with one-third the mass and only one one-thousandth the brilliance of the sun. When it passed through the Oort cloud, it would...
...month Ronald Reagan had been playing something of an unaccustomed role: the overanxious suitor. At nearly every opportunity, he betrayed his eagerness to meet with his Soviet counterpart. Two days after Mikhail Gorbachev was named Soviet Communist Party leader, Reagan invited him to a tete-a-tete in the U.S. The President's desire did not diminish even after a Soviet guard shot and killed a U.S. officer in East Germany. Said Reagan in a Washington Post interview following the shooting: "I want a meeting even more so, to sit down and look someone in the eye . . . to make sure...