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...afternoon session with Gorbachev. This time they spent no time alone. Instead they were joined from the start by Shultz and Shevardnadze. Carefully reading from his notes, Reagan offered no new counterproposals. But the revised presentation did stress the areas where the U.S. felt there was now common ground...
...work in the world these days. The President's voice hints that he senses a yearning the world over for reducing tension, for paying more heed to people's needs. Maybe, he muses, they sense it in the Soviet Union too. "I've never believed I could break new ground with the General Secretary, that I could make him abandon his beliefs and embrace ours. The leopard is not going to change his spots. But what we do there can be for his good...
Democratic prospects are brighter in the Northeast, where Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts hope to enhance their national prospects with big re-election wins. Yet their once secure colleague, William O'Neill of Connecticut, has been losing ground to charismatic Republican State Legislator Julie Belaga; the latest polls show O'Neill clinging to a narrow lead...
...miles inland, the plane veered northeast toward the Nicaraguan garrison town of San Carlos. According to Nicaraguan accounts, as the craft dropped down to 2,500 ft. and prepared to discharge its cargo, a 19-year-old Sandinista soldier, José Fernando Corales Aleman, raised his shoulder-held, Soviet-made ground-to-air missile launcher and fired. The lumbering aircraft shuddered when the rocket found its target, then spiraled earthward, trailing smoke. While the soldiers cheered and slapped one an other on the back, a parachute popped open and a lone figure floated down behind some hills several miles away...
Flying Tigers, an air-cargo carrier founded by World War II fighter pilots and ground crewmen in 1945, may be waging its last competitive battle. The world's largest cargo line (1985 revenues: $1.1 billion) may fold unless the labor unions that represent 2,790 of its 6,334 employees grant major wage and benefit concessions. Since 1983 the Los Angeles-based carrier has lost $95 million in price wars with competitors like Japan's Nippon Cargo Airlines...