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...letter was the covering note attached to a Pentagon study that Reagan had requested on alleged Soviet violations of past arms agreements. In a somewhat patronizing tone, Weinberger cautioned his Commander in Chief against making any concessions to Mikhail Gorbachev that would "limit severely your options for responding." U.S. commitment to strict compliance with the antiballistic missile treaty of 1972, warned Weinberger, could eventually hamper progress on the President's vaunted Strategic Defense Initiative. That militant position was hardly a new one for Weinberger, but the timing of his latest warning gave the Soviets an opening to charge that...
Unlike most other countries with modern, high-speed motorways, West Germany allows drivers to zip along as fast as they choose on more than 5,000 miles of autobahn. So when the Bonn government earlier this year suggested that a nationwide limit of 62 m.p.h. (100 k.p.h.) was a possibility, the outcry was long and loud. Now the danger appears to have passed. In the face of noisy protests, the Cabinet of Chancellor Helmut Kohl last week voted to keep the autobahn free and fast...
...pollution. The latter point was especially sensitive. More than half of West Germany's forests are diseased or dying, largely be cause of poisonous emissions from factories and motor vehicles. Still, there is some hope for the trees. Government officials are discussing an 81 m.p.h. (130 k.p.h.) limit as one that their speed-loving countrymen might accept. With good reason: the Brussels-based European Commission may soon propose a European Community-wide limit, which West Germany would be under considerable pressure from its neighbors to accept. The probable standard: 81 m.p.h. FRANCE Hats Off to the Kepi...
Besides Sheina's homelife, Harris depicts a series of community scenes: an outdoor wedding capped by the bride's energetic dance with other women while the groom prances in an adjacent room with the men; a beehive-like bakery where workers scurry to produce matzoh under the prescribed limit of 18 minutes; a farbrengen (gathering), where Rabbi Schneerson preaches extemporaneously for hours to a room packed with followers, while the women crowd behind dark Plexiglas in an upstairs gallery...
...Ways and Means plan, though, differs dramatically from the Administration's in retaining some of Middle America's most hallowed tax breaks. One is the privilege of writing off mortgage interest on a second home. The Administration's proposal to limit that advantage stirred a ruckus not only from homeowners but from the building industry and mortgage lenders. Another break that Ways and Means restored is the deductibility of state and local taxes, which was stoutly defended by legislators from high-levy states. One congressional study estimated that the loss of deductibility would add some $1,600 to the average...