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Some three hours later in Moscow, the proposal was presented to the world's public--the audience at which it was largely aimed--in typical Soviet fashion. The anchorman on the nightly newscast Vremya (Time), his face expressionless, picked up a sheaf of papers and announced, with no more emotion than he might have used to present a weather report, that he had a "statement by the General Secretary of the Communist Party." Then he droned on for half an hour as the news agency TASS distributed the statement around the world...
...north of London, through the Panama Canal to California. Though small (64 members), St. Matthews is wealthy enough to raise the estimated $750,000 required to dismantle, pack and ship the 729-year-old limestone edifice. It will be rebuilt in the Corona del Mar area, about half an hour's drive from Long Beach harbor, where another British relic, the retired liner Queen Mary, is berthed...
...complicated series of tests. Doctors clipped three tiny polyps from the wall of the President's colon and shipped them off for examination. A surgeon shaved off a tiny growth on the right side of Reagan's face and sent it, too, for a biopsy. The six-hour medical work-up also included X rays, blood tests and a CAT scan, which provides images of internal organs...
...hallmark of García's program has been his vigorous attack on inefficiency and sloth. In recent weeks he has been engaged in a running argument with Peru's civil servants, who have resisted his effort to curb the five-hour workdays that have become traditional during the hot months, from January to March. The new President was even bold enough to attack extravagance in the pampered military, slashing an $800 million deal to purchase 26 French Mirage jet fighters back to twelve...
...letter from British Aerospace to the government, said to contain the company's account of a Jan. 8 meeting in which Brittan allegedly urged it to withdraw from the European group. In his reply, Brittan denied four times that such a letter had come in. Within an hour, however, the Prime Minister's office admitted that Thatcher had indeed received the letter and had mentioned it to Brittan. The Minister then executed a sharp about-face, explaining that he had not felt free earlier to reveal the letter's existence because it was marked PRIVATE AND STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL. Said Brittan...