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...ANGELES--President Reagan, in a major address setting the tone for U.S.-Soviet talks next week, said yesterday there is no excuse for the way U.S. security was handled at the Moscow Embassy, but added that the spy scandal should not derail arms control negotiations or relations between the superpowers...
...after all, one of the peculiar aspects of senility that it tends to derail the brain into the trackless waste of childhood reminiscence. Allen wanders through such barren terrain in Radio Days, a series of vignettes drawn from his boyhood during the glory days of radio. Time progresses, but to no discernible end. While the vignettes are not quite incomprehensible, they certainly are not laden with meaning, either. Kind of like Reader's Digest...
Last week's violence in Soweto seemed virtually inevitable. Two days before the mourners gathered, authorities had announced restrictions clearly designed to derail township plans for a mass funeral for those who had died in the previous week's police crackdown on rent strikers. When outraged Sowetans defiantly ignored the ban, even sacred burial grounds were transformed into battlefields...
...firm's exploits have grown, so has the criticism. Some investors claim that Kohlberg Kravis leverages its deals too far, loading up the bought- out companies with a debt burden that could be fatal in a recession. Another development that may derail Kohlberg Kravis is the federal tax reform movement, which appears likely to limit some of the write-offs that help make LBOs such lucrative investments. That prospect has already slowed the pace of most Wall Street LBO specialists, with the notable exception of Kohlberg Kravis...
...Chief Justice Warren Burger in his final opinion for the court, means that the Comptroller General is "subservient" to Congress and cannot be entrusted with Executive powers. In a vigorous dissent, Justice Byron White criticized the majority's adherence to a "distressingly formalistic view of separation of powers" to derail "one of the most novel and far-reaching legislative responses to a national crisis since the New Deal...