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...archaeologists, tiny Easter Island, located in the Pacific more than 2,000 miles west of mainland Chile, is a treasure. Its giant brooding stone figures, fashioned centuries ago, look stoically out to sea, their purpose an age-old mystery. For the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, there is a different attraction: NASA would like to use Easter Island as a possible emergency landing site for the space shuttle. Under a plan proposed to Chile, which owns the 45.5-sq.-mi. speck, NASA would spend an estimated $11 million to lengthen the 8,500-ft. local runway by about half...
...different styles, coming up with novel reasons for people to buy their wares and using new technology that enables cards to play tunes or talk. Hallmark offers 1,200 varieties of cards for Mother's Day, the year's fourth-biggest card day (after Christmas, Valentine's Day and Easter), while American Greetings boasts of 1,300. The products range from a traditional card with a picture of flowers and syrupy poetry for $1 or less to a $7 electronic version that plays the tune of You Are the Sunshine of My Life...
When the President returns to Washington this week from his Easter break, his plans may once again be reconsidered. Aides say that he might add a visit to a German synagogue "to balance" his itinerary, or cancel the cemetery stop. Nonetheless, the unsettling series of decisions and statements emanating from the White House will make it difficult for Reagan to assuage the indignation he has aroused...
...symbolic day of Easter Sunday, Gorbachev made his move. In an interview with Pravda, he announced a freeze on Soviet deployment of intermediate-range missiles in Europe until November and invited the U.S. to do the same. He also proposed a freeze on strategic offensive arms and a moratorium on the development of space weapons while arms negotiations are under way in Geneva. Almost as an aside, he mentioned that both powers had expressed "a positive attitude" toward a summit. "Confrontation," Gorbachev said, "is not an inborn defect of our relations...
...must make a new beginning . . . We must get to know each other . . . With trust and goodwill we can walk forward in faith." The Easter Sunday address by Executive President P.W. Botha was less notable for its message than for its enormous audience: a throng generously estimated by police at up to 3 million black people camped on the flanks of the hills and the low ground of the Moria Valley. All were followers of the Zion Christian Church, which claims more than 4 million members. Botha's reception gave some credence to the President's claim that his white minority...