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Critics of Star Wars would like to use it for leverage in arms-control bargaining: to promise not to deploy it in return for reductions in Soviet heavy land-based missiles. But the Administration wants to keep the discussion of Star Wars separate from proposals for missile reductions. The next round of ; arms talks will be three-pronged, with separate negotiations on medium-range and long-range missiles and defense systems like Star Wars. The Administration announced last week that Washington Lawyer Max Kampelman, who successfully negotiated the Madrid agreement on European security and human rights in 1983, will...
...current lines about 25 miles inside Lebanon to a point between the Zahrani and Litani rivers, anywhere from seven to 20 miles to the south. An exact timetable will be submitted in advance to the Gemayel government and to the U.N. "in order to permit them to organize and deploy forces in the area...
...movies as "the motion picture"; its narration may drone on with the doughy portentousness of elegies on Oscar night. But this compilation of a thousand or so flying feet shows its class only when it shuts up and lets Astaire put a shine on his shoes or Busby Berkeley deploy his battalion of chorines in giddily precise formations or the Nicholas Brothers take flight and dare each other to come down first...
...code name for the Colombia operation was Hat Trick. The plan was to deploy dozens of Coast Guard and Navy vessels across a wide sweep of the Caribbean to intercept the huge shipments of marijuana that are transported from Colombia to the U.S. at the conclusion of the pot harvest in November and December. The elaborate strategy called for Colombian soldiers to move against marijuana traffickers in the Guajira Peninsula, between the Gulf of Venezuela and the Caribbean. With Venezuelan and Panamanian soldiers guarding their respective borders, the smugglers would be forced to ship out the marijuana...
...talks. Intra-Administration rivalry, attempts to solidify the support of the Europeans, the "public relations" push for domestic support of our position--Talbott describes it all in excruciating and damning (at least in his eyes) detail. His acknowledgement, that the Soviets never accepted the West's intention to deploy at least some missiles to counter the SS-20 sneaks by in a glancing reference. The Soviets' ridiculous opening proposal, in which they offered to participate in creation of a "nuclear-free Europe" (thereby leaving the Europeans at the political and military mercy of vastly superior Warsaw Pact conventional armies...