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Stepping back from what had become a presummit public relations duel, both sides avoided public discussion of the proposal, which will officially be placed on the negotiating table in Geneva this week. Government analysts spent the weekend parsing the Gorbachev letter and Shevardnadze's verbal presentation. But it seemed likely that the scheme will envision a large swap: the Soviets would move toward the U.S. position on reducing offensive nuclear weapons if the Americans severely limited their program of ultramodern Star Wars missile defenses...
Starting pitchers John Tudor and Ron Darling locked up in a classic scoreless duel with Darling hurling nine shutout frames and Tudor hanging up 10 goose eggs before departing for a pinch hitter in the bottom of the 10th...
...sometimes gullible consumers. Complex issues can be twisted and made dangerously simple by clever opinion shapers, and if the masses can be moved, their elected leaders must follow. Nuclear weapons have raised the stakes. As real war becomes increasingly costly and nuclear war barely thinkable, East and West must duel with words. "Ideas are weapons," declared V.I. Lenin more than half a century ago. U.S. Information Agency Director Charles Z. Wick says today, "The only war the U.S. has fought in the past four years has been the propaganda...
Falwell himself marches into the secular world with his chin outthrust. Unlike the many electronic ministers who flee direct questioning, Falwell challenges hostile outsiders. He travels 8,000 miles a week, lashing out at abortion, pornography and homosexuality. He has been to Harvard to duel with jeering students who spilled over into three auditoriums to hear him, and to Oxford to debate Prime Minister David Lange of New Zealand about nuclear weapons. He dares Scientist Carl Sagan to debate creationism; Sagan has declined the challenge. He has a private session with South Africa's President P.W. Botha and sides publicly...
...ultimate contest comes when Jack challenges the seafaring snob to a sailing duel. They wager two weeks' rent (or about $1000) on the outcome of the race...