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...months-a third of a presidential term. In the meantime, Reagan has changed the acronym from SALT to START, substituting "reduction" for "limitation." His critics were beginning to wonder if the real name of the game was perhaps STALL. But in a speech he took to his alma mater, Eureka College in Illinois, on Sunday-his most comprehensive address on East-West relations since taking office-Reagan finally unveiled his proposal for a new round in negotiations with the Soviet Union. He suggested that the talks begin in June and reiterated his suggestion of a meeting with Leonid Brezhnev...
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...specifics of Reagan's proposal, advanced in a speech at Eureka College, his alma mater, are less important than the underlying attitudes of the Administration which produced it. Clearly, the Russians are not going to jump at a plan which would have its greatest on land based ballistic missiles, on which Moscow relies much more heavily than does the U.S. and leaves unaffected such American weapons as the Cruise missile and intercontinental bombers. Therefore, when and if the two sides get down to business in Geneva, the Administration will likely confront a Kremlin counter-proposal which it finds as unpalatable...
Another enchanting example of contemporary architecture is also religious-the 22-month-old Thorncrown Chapel in Eureka Springs, Ark. It is one of the most popular and widely publicized of new American buildings. The secluded chapel, which seats about 130, won an award for excellence from the American Institute of Architects and was sought out last year by 120,000 visitors. Noting its striking qualities, the A.I. A. Journal says, "It is a building of great integrity...
Thorncrown Chapel, Eureka Springs, Ark. Fay Jones & Associates, architects. A simple but evocative structure of pine boards, glass and ingenuity, designed by a student of Frank Lloyd Wright's. It is one of the few buildings that advance the master's concept of organic architecture...