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...based antimissile shield. Gorbachev's letter proposed linking cuts in offensive missiles to an agreement by both countries to honor for at least 15 more years the 1972 antiballistic-missi le agreement, which would confine SDI to laboratory research and prohibit development, testing and deployment. As Reagan was taking flak at home and abroad for announcing that he planned to abandon the SALT II treaty, Gorbachev showed new signs of flexibility at the Geneva arms-control talks...
...ahead, make his day. In the roles of mayor of Carmel, Calif., Marine Sergeant Tom Highway and just plain Clint Eastwood, he is far too busy acting, directing, producing and running a town to take any flak. Not even from the U.S. Army. Seems that in his latest film, Heartbreak Ridge, he plays a lifer who won a medal in a bloody Korean War battle but who is now going through some rough times both in and out of the service. The Army refused to cooperate with the production because of script problems, so Eastwood sold it to the Marines...
...huge, ubiquitous, swaggering from one medium into the next and the next: he is a movie warrior, he is a TV cartoon character, he is a plastic doll, he is a music-video creature and now, in candy racks all over America, he is chewing gum--Rambo black flak, jagged, black raspberry bits packed in foil pouches and meant to resemble shrapnel...
...according to a study by Citizens for Tax Justice, a consumer and labor group. Commented T.A. Wilson, chairman of Boeing: "The complaint is that through various techniques, we defer taxes. I would just as soon have a minimum tax and take a lot less of that flak." The minimum tax would help finance the reduction of rates for companies that have been paying high levies, particularly such light industries as food processing and cosmetics...
While Joan Bok took a lot of flak for writing the attack on three alumni running for that governing body on a pro-divestment platform, Derek Bok never revealed that he was the one who asked her to write...