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...move showed Marcos at his wiliest. The new election date allowed the President to claim magnanimity for allowing opposition parties more time to prepare for the contest. It was flexibility he could well afford: last week Marcos' civilian opponents appeared to be more deeply divided than ever. Only days after leading Opposition Figures Corazon ("Cory") Aquino and Salvador ("Doy") Laurel made a public display of their solidarity against Marcos, it seemed they were about to split over the issue of who should run against the President...
...constant alert, occasionally shooing away Iranian intruders. Qaboos has also seen to it that Oman's 21,500-man volunteer army, navy and air force do not lack for equipment. He lavishes 46% of the national budget on the military and keeps it supplied with up-to-date tanks, aircraft and weaponry...
...teenagers agree. "We maintain this incredible double standard with teenagers about sex," says Alice Radosh, coordinator of pregnancy and parenting services in the New York City mayor's office. "If you're swept away by passion, then you didn't do anything wrong. But if you went on a date after taking the Pill or with a diaphragm, then you're bad. You were looking for sex, and that's not permitted...
Murphy Jones (James Garner) is a prosperous widower who runs the nearest drugstore. His marble soda fountain and his car, a 1927 Studebaker, express his commitment to solid, old-fashioned workmanship, while the antinuke sticker on the Studi's windshield shows that he too is up-to-date on matters of faith and morals...
...date, Reagan has shown no inclination to bargain away SDI to accept any limits on it. At their summit in November, Reagan tried in vain to convince Gorbachev that large-scale strategic defenses were in the interests of world peace; Gorbachev tried just as unsuccessfully to interest Reagan in an offense-defense trade-off. Because of the President's very personal--and at the same time very public--commitment to the dream that someday space-based defenses might render nuclear weapons "impotent and obsolete," it is politically dangerous for any member of his Administration to advocate compromise...