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This week the U.S. will try to regain the Ryder Cup it lost two years ago at the Belfry Club in England to Spain's Seve Ballesteros and Germany's Bernhard Langer, the foremost golfers in the world. This time Captain Jack Nicklaus is optimistic about the Yanks' chances. Australian Greg Norman is neutral, and the site, Nicklaus' own Muirfield Village course in Ohio, is particularly unfamiliar to the foreign players. The annual Memorial Tournament there regularly conflicts with the British P.G.A...
...foreign shopping bender signals a major transformation in America's global economic role. For nearly four decades following World War II, the U.S. did the buying, savoring its role as the globe's foremost exporter of capital. U.S. investment power was so great that in 1968 French Economics Journalist Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber predicted that American multinational companies like IBM and ITT threatened to turn Western Europe into an economic province. Concern about foreign cash flowing into the U.S. arose briefly in the 1970s, when a weak U.S. dollar and the emerging clout of OPEC prompted fear of an Arab...
...equally important step to sweep away the other stubborn sticking point in the INF talks: they eased their demands for stiff on-site inspection checks to ensure compliance with a treaty. The turnaround was extraordinary for Reagan. It has long been an article of faith for conservatives, the President foremost among them, that any agreement should include the strictest possible verification procedures. Before entering the White House, Reagan attacked Jimmy Carter's unratified 1979 SALT II treaty for lacking adequate verification guarantees...
Schlesinger Library is one of the country's foremost libraries devoted to the lives of women and their contributions to American society. Radcliffe will award the fellowships to undergraduates--regardless of sex--who are conducting research in the Library's specialties...
...President seems determined to continue with the operation indefinitely. Says a senior Administration official: "He's committed to demonstrating support to our friends in the region." Still, the White House began muting its military role in the gulf last week. Senior officials insisted that the reflagging was first and foremost a display of solidarity toward the moderate Arabs, not a show of muscle...