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...deals must be struck with what Reagan has called an "evil empire," a nation that reserves "the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat," then the U.S. must insist on the most intrusive, comprehensive inspection measures to assure that the Soviets are not violating any new agreement by hiding weapons that are supposed to be limited...
...papal assassination. TIME has also learned that Mantarov did not have diplomatic status at the Bulgarian embassy; he was, in fact, a technician attached to the commercial section. And at least one important detail in the Times story may be wrong: Bulgarian émigrés living in Paris insist that Mantarov defected on April 11, 1981, not the following July. If the earlier date is correct, Mantarov would have defected before the assassination attempt. The timing is crucial, since Mantarov then could have told French authorities about the plot before the attempt took place. What makes this speculation important...
Most bankers and retailers, however, are dragging their feet about reducing credit-card charges. Bankers insist that these accounts are exceptionally expensive to administer and, as a result, interest charges on them have always been high. In many states, credit-card rates have hovered at 18% or more for at least a decade, through periods when the banks' cost of borrowing was roughly half what it is now, so those rates seem unlikely to drop below 18% any time soon...
...Reagan once complained. Still, it's a bit unsettling to be that closely monitored by the White House. The night Anne Burford resigned, the White House called during the Evening News broadcast to deny CBS's assertion that Reagan had asked for her resignation. CBS continued to insist that the White House had "wanted...
...students marched by torchlight to protest Harvard's complicity in apartheid; the next year, two-thirds of the student body went on a one-day strike against South African investments. With national media attention focused on the divestiture movement, drawn by the march. President Bok was careful to insist on Harvard's "abhorrence" of apartheid. Yet Bok refused to divest, promising instead a case-by-case review of its portfolio to determine whether a given corporation contributed more to apartheid than it provided in benefits to its Black employees...