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...splashy, well-illustrated 156-page SMP, first brought out in 1981, offers a few scoops: blurred but unique photographs of the Soviet SS-20 intermediate-range missile that threatens Western Europe, Japan and China; and photos of one of the three new Delta IV-class nuclear-powered submarines and of the Su-27 Flanker, an air-defense fighter deployed only this year. But overall, reviews of the book were lukewarm. While many U.S. military experts outside the Pentagon think SMP has improved in accuracy and candor with each new edition, they still regard it as less than totally objective...
...book. She has become well-known among college students in the past few years primarily for her records. Best known are her two Warner Brothers releases. Big Science (1982) and Mister Heartbreak (1984), as well as her five-record chronicle of the performance-art piece United States Parts I-IV...
...opponent to the mat and sitting on him. With Gromyko kicked upstairs to the largely ceremonial post of President and Gorbachev's protege Eduard Shevardnadze in charge of the Foreign Ministry, Soviet diplomacy now resembles Ivan Drago, the sleek and powerful Soviet boxer portrayed in the movie Rocky IV...
Yevtushenko recently captured international headlines when he denounced Sylvester Stallone's films, "Rocky IV" and "Rambo: First Blood, Part II" as "warnography." Yevtushenko told a press gathering in the Soviet Union that the films' images of violence toward Soviets undermined friendly relations between the U.S. and the USSR...
...Howard Baker, who declined to appear because he had expected to be out of the country. Some, including North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms and TV Evangelist Pat Robertson, were accorded podium time mostly as a reward for long-standing ardor. Others, notably former Delaware Governor Pierre S. du Pont IV, were long shots by any standard. A clear favorite was Kirkpatrick, a "heroine to conservatives" as Keene called her, who delivered a foreign policy address to the convention. Kirkpatrick called on the U.S. to "let the world know we stand with those who stand for freedom," a reference to anti...