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...Kremlin's leaders that NATO, born 40 years ago as a specifically anti-Soviet alliance, today has only the most peaceful intentions toward the U.S.S.R. As the closing communique put it, "The Atlantic community must reach out to the countries of the East which were our adversaries . . . and extend to them the hand of friendship...
...most contentious issue of all was, and remains, whether to extend economic aid to Gorbachev's government. The Soviet President for the first time explicitly asked for such assistance in letters to Bush and Thatcher before the NATO meeting. But the subject evidently was considered too hot to handle: it was not on the summit agenda and went unmentioned in the communique, despite much discussion...
...NATO allies into ponying up an additional $15 billion or so. Colleagues suspect Kohl's real motive is to buy Moscow's consent to German unification and to a unified Germany's membership in NATO, for cash. Bush told his press conference, "I have some big problems" with extending aid at this time. One, he said, is that "a great percentage" of Soviet gross national product is still going into military spending. Also, Moscow has continued to extend aid to anti-American regimes in Afghanistan, Angola and, worst of all, Cuba. Now that Bush has in effect agreed that...
...comprehensive package, passed late Saturday night by both houses of the state legislature, would extend the state's traditional sales tax to transactions in areas ranging from law and consulting to architecture and landscaping. Yesterday, Dukakis asked the State Supreme Judicial Court for advice on the constitutionality of the bill, which would also raise the state's personal income tax in an attempt to remedy a mounting budget deficit...
Hubble never had an easy time. After the launch, engineers had to fiddle with stubborn antennas that refused to extend. When the antennas were fixed, the messages that came back to Earth indicated that the spacecraft was wobbling: when it swung from darkness to sunlight, the sun's rays striking Hubble's cold solar panels produced a minor vibration that caused the spacecraft to oscillate slowly. This motion confused instruments that were built to such precision that they could read a license plate 48 km (30 miles) away. NASA software designers are now writing programs to counteract the oscillations...