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...experts to visit the Soviet Union in some time will be able to form their own judgments on the changes wrought so far during the Gorbachev era. A delegation of 350 members of the Council on Foreign Relations, including former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and Cyrus Vance and ex-U.N. Ambassador Jeane Kirkpatrick, is scheduled to be in Moscow for discussions with Soviet officials and academics, and Gorbachev is expected to meet with the group...
Thomas J. Watson, longtime chairman of IBM and ex-U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., at Harvard University: "By overwhelming odds, the result of any use of nuclear weapons would not be victory...
DIED. Price Daniel Jr., 39, lawyer and reform-minded politician, onetime speaker of the Texas house of representatives and son of former Texas Governor and ex-U.S. Senator Price Daniel; of a gunshot wound inflicted by his wife Vickie, who had filed for divorce in December on the grounds that their four-year marriage was "insupportable because of discord or conflict of personalities"; in Liberty, Texas. No charges have been filed, pending an investigation into the cause of the shooting...
...South Carolina's ex-U.S. Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett saw the future and found it tolerable. By the year 2000, he prophesied, the South would have "established an empire and wrought out a civilization that has never been equaled or surpassed−a civilization teeming with orators, poets, philosophers, statesmen and historians equal to those of Greece and Rome." Five years later the Confederacy was dead. The only thing the South never lost was its capacity to provoke intoxicated visions and literary hyperbole...
...effect is disjointed from the opening sequence, a frenzied victory celebration in a skyscraper nightclub where Tommy Dorsey's orchestra is doing a radio spot. Unemployed Sax Player Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro), on a spree in his sporty new civvies, picks up ex-U.S.O. Singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) in an ill-paced scene that is lumbered with flat, witless dialogue ("Give me your phone number...