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...contrasting view is that the Soviets too think Gorbachev let Reagan get the better of him in Geneva, so that he is now under pressure not to meet again unless something tangible can be won. Some Soviet / officials have indeed begun to hint that they are prepared to forgo another meeting, not just this year and next but for the remainder of the Reagan presidency. Georgi Arbatov, a key adviser on American affairs, muttered darkly on a Soviet television program last week, "Soviet relations with the U.S. did not begin with Reagan, and they will not end with Reagan." That...
...statement did not say when the Soviets would resume underground nuclear tests, which are never announced here, but noted that "the Soviet state cannot forgo its own security and that of its allies" if Washington is testing...
...ruin was nothing new to Fisk: in October 1871, the place was down to $1 to its name; a year earlier, a teacher apologized for petitioning for back pay, saying it was a case of going barefoot through the cold months; a year before that, the faculty voted to forgo desserts to cut costs in the dining room. For better than a century, then, the place has always managed to claw itself through every penurious period. And so in the spring of 1984, when the prospect of real collapse looked near, those who love Fisk were beside themselves. The anguished...
...second-generation Duvalier flaunted an opulent life-style in the midst of incredible poverty. The President, who is fond of yachts and sports cars, did not forgo either pleasure when a critical shortage of foreign currency last year left the country almost without fuel. His most costly indulgence may have been his 1980 marriage to Michele Bennett, 34, a Haitian divorcee who once worked in New York City as a secretary. Their wedding was Haiti's social event of the decade. The price tag: $3 million. Fireworks alone cost...
...through "transfusions" of the most advanced ideas, discoveries and innovations from Soviet science to Soviet industry and agriculture, through more effective use of our own scientific and technological potential. That is the thrust of our plans and programs. At the same time, we would naturally not like to forgo those additional advantages that are provided by reciprocal scientific and technological cooperation with other countries, including...