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Gorbachev said differences over Star Wars, formally called the Strategic Defense Initiative, still could halt progress in U.S.-Soviet relations...
...told Soviet television viewers that differences over the U.S. "Star Wars" program for developing a space-based missile defense remain among issues that could halt further improvements in the superpower relationship...
Analysts said the tentative deal's major weakness was that it was unlikely to halt overproduction by OPEC members such as Iraq and the United Arab Emirates...
...since the 1970s had Italy been so gripped by labor strife and protest. From the Alps to the Mezzogiorno, Milan to Palermo, buses and trains came to a halt, airports shut down, and courts, banks and government offices closed as some 12 million workers last week staged a four-hour walkout. In the country's first general strike in three years, factory workers and police officers, teachers and students, white-collar workers and pensioners marched through city streets under banners demanding more money for health and education and less for defense...
...cars skidded to a halt near Beirut's Summerland Hotel. Two men, dazed and disheveled, emerged. They turned out to be Jean-Louis Normandin, a French television technician who was kidnaped in March 1986, and Roger Auque, a journalist seized last January. Normandin had been held by the pro-Iran Revolutionary Justice Organization, but Auque's abductors may have belonged to another group...