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...like Soviet policy toward Afghanistan, Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East, at a Reagan- Gorbachev meeting. The Soviets say they do not want a summit without some guarantee of progress on arms control. As the two sides emerged from private talks last week aimed at laying the groundwork for a summit, they appeared to remain far apart. Though the U.S. side rated the talks "constructive and businesslike," Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Adamishin was more downbeat. Said he: "I don't think we have achieved a lot of progress." The news from the Administration last week at least...
...Reagan Administration was not impressed. Vernon Walters, chief U.S. delegate to the U.N., called the offer for negotiations a "lie." He charged that Nicaragua's Sandinista regime was "laying the groundwork for a one-party state." His Nicaraguan counterpart, Nora Astorga in turn accused Walters of "repeating the same distortions and lies" in order to disguise an illegal U.S. policy of aggression. Walters countered, "Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to destroy the democratic labor movement? Is it a lie that the Sandinistas have sought to crush Nicaragua's private sector?" Within moments, Ortega's appeal...
...wife Ernestine, a professor of comparative literature at Montclair State College, into the hurly-burly of a national campaign. "If you backed me into a corner right now, I'd say I wasn't running in 1988," he says. In fact, he has laid none of the necessary groundwork, such as amassing a war chest or flying off to speak in early primary states like New Hampshire. Says Media Adviser Kaye: "He'll run when he truly believes he's ready. He's so much a student of the game, and he's still learning." Bradley's education...
...fairness to the Socialists, they did prepare some of the groundwork for Chirac's reforms. After a disastrous jump in prices, Mitterrand's party in 1983 adopted a more pragmatic, market-oriented program that brought down inflation from a 1981 high of 14% to about 4% last year. Chirac's regime also inherited a much improved energy outlook. The recent decline in world oil prices will lop $9 billion off France's 1986 bill for petroleum imports. These trends, plus Chirac's initiatives, have increased business confidence. In the past twelve months, stocks on the Bourse have enjoyed a spectacular...
...this year Bozzotto seemed more concerned with laying the groundwork for more effective lobbying on behalf of worker concerns than with actually achieving his many demands...