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Late into the night, exhausted aides (one presidential adviser had slept two out of 60 hours) found the detail work to be hard going. The U.S. wanted to call for a 50% reduction in "comparable nuclear systems." The Soviets, whose earlier arms offers had counted nuclear weapons quite differently from the U.S., continued to balk. Finally, at 4:45 a.m., nebulous compromise language was reached: a 50% reduction to nuclear arms "appropriately applied...
Ultrasensitive messages, like those used by the White House Secret Service detail, are scrambled and cannot be decoded without sophisticated equipment. But unscrambled transmissions from most agencies are vulnerable to eavesdroppers using commercially available radio scanners. DeConcini wants Congress to fatten the budget for secure communications. The Government was reminded of the embarrassing problem of intercepted radio messages during the Achille Lauro episode in October, when ham-radio operators heard Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger advising the President over an unsecured channel. NEW JERSEY A Corrupt Pol Surfaces...
...minor change, but no one treats it that way, least of all Chung, a hard-nosed, detail-oriented boss with a penchant for micromanagement. ("He still makes the decision on how big a Christmas tree to put in the lobby," quips a former Hyundai executive.) After eyeballing the gizmo from several angles, Chung demands, "Is this enough?" Finally, he nods his O.K. but reminds his execs, "We can't allow any defects to damage our cars...
...Courtney Walsh as the game's most prolific fast bowler. Though vanity is frowned upon in Australian cricket, there's no point McGrath claiming that these milestones are unimportant to him. During a televised awards ceremony earlier in the year, it emerged that he's able to recall, in detail, the circumstances of all of his 499 wickets. Just pick a number and off he goes. "If I'd have written down 10 years ago how I'd have wanted my cricket life to unfold," he says, "it wouldn't have been too different to how it's panned...
...central report, from the Committee on General Education, remained in committee after its early readers criticized its lack of detail and an overarching vision. (Please see story, page...