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...have to believe there is reason for optimism," about a possible future superpower summit, the president said. "We are waiting for them to give us a date...
...rhetoric and a glaring lack of information have led to questions about the feasibility and desirability of SDI. Now a panel of the nation's most distinguished scientists have spent 18 months investigating the program. Their report promises to be the most thorough and impartial assessment of SDI to date. But the Reagan Administration, for some odd reason, wants to censor some of their report...
...Temple of Doom. Disgruntled shopkeepers claimed that some stores belonging to such giant chains as K mart, Wal-Mart and Waldenbooks had taken an unfair lead on competitors by putting the popularly priced ($29.95) Paramount blockbuster on sale as much as a week before its official release date. The chain stores denied purposely jumping the start, but irate competitors consider the episode just another example of the cutthroat tactics that are sweeping the home-video business (estimated 1986 sales: $7.2 billion...
...George Shultz in a particularly uncomfortable spot. What he knew about them is uncertain. He was surely aware of the meetings between National Security Council officials and Iranian representatives. As a member of the NSC, he was privy to a presidential memorandum in February summarizing the meetings to that date and directing that they continue. According to some reports, he heard about the arms shipments and protested vainly against them to the President. Some of Shultz's subordinates, however, think the Secretary did not learn about the arms transactions until the rest of the world...
Ramos' no-nonsense message came as Aquino prepared for a four-day trip to Japan this week. The President seemed unfazed by the coup rumors -- and Enrile's persistent opposition. Ignoring his calls for immediate presidential elections, she set Feb. 2 as the date for a plebiscite on a new charter that would grant her a full six-year term in office. She announced that legislative elections would be held next May 11. At midweek government negotiators reopened talks with Communist rebels, an Aquino initiative that Enrile has sharply criticized. Only one day earlier, Archbishop Jaime Cardinal Sin of Manila...