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Both leaders said they would meet again next year in the United States, and expressed the hope--but not the certainty--they would be able to sign historic agreements in 1990 to cut long range nuclear weapons and conventional forces in Europe and make progress toward a chemical weapons...
...wake of the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, Lenin had pledged toleration but delivered terror. "Russia turned crimson with the blood of martyrs," says Father Gleb Yakunin, Russian Orthodoxy's bravest agitator for religious freedom. In the Bolsheviks' first five years in power, 28 bishops and 1,200 priests were cut down by the red sickle. Stalin greatly accelerated the terror, and by the end of Khrushchev's rule, liquidations of clergy reached an estimated 50,000. After World War II, fierce but generally less bloody persecution spread into the Ukraine and the new Soviet bloc, affecting millions of Roman Catholics...
...Group in Emeryville, Calif., has developed computerized silencers that can cut through the line noise that makes cellular telephoning a chore. The same technology is being used by Government agencies involved in surveillance and intelligence gathering to improve the performance of eavesdropping devices. Active Noise and Vibration Technologies of Phoenix makes antinoise speakers for the headrests of helicopters, trucks and airplanes to surround passengers with zones of silence. Soon, lawn mowers and snow-blowers may be electronically muzzled to reduce suburban din. And, thanks to antinoise systems, submarines carrying nuclear warheads now run silent as well as deep. "Everywhere...
...worked so hard to cut the lead down from 20, that when we got it HARVARD 35-44--79 Nebraska...
While North Americans begin to build a consensus on the need to cut off military aid to El Salvador--aid that now amounts to $1.4 million dollars per day--Cristiani has desperately tried to deflect attention away from the recent abuses. Last week he broke all diplomatic and commercial ties with Nicaragua, which he claims is supplying arms and training to the guerrillas. He also announced his refusal to attend the next round of Central American peace talks, scheduled to be held in Nicaragua...