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...year, "we may have pushed ourselves beyond a point of no return with the Soviets so that they'll start acting as though we have such a system. Instead of concentrating on diplomacy, they'll pull out the stops in their military programs to counter the defenses they will expect us to have...
...because more than 100,000 people visited a tiny museum last year where only a few of its 400 paintings and illustrations can be hung, more than a stop sign is needed. The folks expect to build the new museum on a 40-acre tract near the Housatonic River on the outskirts of the village. They plan to ask the President to come up and start their campaign this spring. The betting is he'll show...
Blauer and other experts expect Price to put more of the company's odd collection of businesses up for sale, and to embark on a management shake-up. The new chairman is also likely to continue the cost-cutting efforts that led to last year's dismissal of more than 7,000 workers in Control Data's computer-peripherals division. Whatever steps he takes, Price may have only limited time to prove himself. If he does not quickly turn Control Data into a leaner and more profitable company, the firm's anxious bankers could soon demand his ouster...
Soviet diplomats frequently call at the State Department. Particularly since the Geneva summit, there has been a great deal of mid-level diplomacy. So there was no reason to expect anything out of the ordinary when Oleg Sokolov, the Soviet chargé d'affaires in Washington, arrived early last Wednesday morning to see Secretary of State George Shultz. But when Sokolov handed him a lengthy letter from Mikhail Gorbachev to Ronald Reagan, Shultz became the first man in official Washington to be startled by a sweeping and unexpected new arms-control proposal. It was studded with ambiguities and potentially risky approaches...
After wading to the platform through a sea of outstretched hands, the lanky, self-assured García, 36, delivered the kind of rousing, nationalistic exhortation that audiences across Peru have come to expect. "A government of the people," he declared, "is a government where the people produce their own history." In countless speeches in the countryside, in the slums of Lima and from the balcony of Government Palace, García has spread the same message: the 19 million people of his hardscrabble country can shape their own destiny, even in the face of desperate poverty...