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...Making haste slowly is likely to be the policy." After months of stasis and drift, the Soviet colossus may begin to move again. ?By John Kohan. Reported by Erik Amfitheatrof/Moscow, with other bureaus
...Tatar who services diesel locomotives in Samarkand, declares ebulliently, "Best of all in my life I like my work." Others, however, are inclined to become cynical and apathetic. Tanya, 21, is an attractive Muscovite who works as a waitress. Married and divorced in her teens, she is content to drift through a day-to-day existence...
...collapse of a pro-Western government in Lebanon and the failure of our policy there is a cause for rejoicing, but I'm inclined to believe that withdrawing the Marines is a good idea." Said Republican Senator Charles Mathias of Maryland: "The President has recognized the irreversible drift of events." Among election strategists, the feeling was that the President had won a neat domestic political advantage by removing the issue of the beleaguered Marines from the upcoming presidential campaign. Said Republican Pollster V. Lance Tarrance: "Ronald Reagan has moved from a sitting duck to a moving target." Congressman Tony...
...drift in Common Market policies was criticized last week in a speech by French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson, who warned that the European Community "has fallen far short of its original objectives" and faces difficulties that could destroy it. Cheysson said the Community lacks "cohesion and solidarity" and has had too little impact on international events...
...year's end the Kremlin let two other negotiations drift into limbo. It refused to set a date for resuming either the Geneva START talks on reducing the numbers of long-range nuclear weapons or the decade-long Vienna bargaining on cutting conventional forces in Europe. The suspensions left the superpowers for the first time in 14 years with no arms-control talks of any kind in progress and with even regular diplomatic contacts frosty...