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...negotiations on troop reductions in Europe that have been dragging on in Vienna for twelve years, and matched a Western concession made last December with one of his own on verification. He proposed an agreement on chemical weapons that moved beyond Moscow's previous willingness to destroy only existing stockpiles and called for dismantling production facilities as well. He also extended for three months a Soviet moratorium on weapons tests that began last August and was to have expired on Jan. 1, and he pledged to prolong it further if the U.S. should join. Washington insists it needs to test...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Farewell to Arms? Gorbachev's disarming proposal | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...know there is good and evil everywhere. I was brought up to seek the good. In the Soviet Union today, the good is the music they produce. I hope that by playing in the Soviet Union, I will make the good better. Music inspires. It does not destroy and kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vladimir Horowitz: The Prodigal Returns | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...literacy test given by the Bureau of the Census to 3,400 Americans age 20 and over. Thirteen percent flunked the test, able to answer only 20 or fewer of the 26 multiple-choice questions. (Sample: Don't allow your medical identification card to a) be used b) have destroy c) go lose d) get expired by any other person.) "It was a pretty simple test," notes Barnes dryly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Losing the War of Letters | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...Editors: Americans must destroy the power of crime families [NATION, Sept. 29]. U.S. Attorneys Rudolph Giuliani and Diane Giacalone deserve to be praised for their outstanding work in prosecuting Mafia Boss John Gotti. He and the other bosses are the scum of the earth. Phillip Bryant Snow Fort Lauderdale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 20, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...crisis. The U.S. then had approximately 5,000 strategic warheads, compared with the Soviets' 300. Despite an advantage of 17 to 1 in our favor, President Kennedy and I were deterred from even considering a nuclear attack on the U.S.S.R. by the knowledge that although such a strike would destroy the Soviet Union, tens of their weapons would survive to be launched against the U.S. These would kill millions of Americans. No responsible political leader would expose his nation to such a catastrophe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: By Robert S. McNamara (Long Road to Reykjavik) | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

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