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...been holding the line against short-range-weapons talks out of fear that negotiations will lead to a supposedly terrible state of affairs in Europe known as "denuclearization" -- the removal of all nuclear weapons from the Continent. According to the NATO catechism, denuclearization would make Europe "safe" for a conventional war that the Warsaw Pact, with its much vaunted superiority in soldiers and tanks, might be tempted to start and could probably win. According to another article of the dark faith, a denuclearized Western Europe would be "Finlandized": France, Italy and Belgium, but above all the Federal Republic of Germany...
...proposing to make the owl a threatened species, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may enable the birds, now numbering only about 2,500 pairs, to succeed where environmentalists have failed: it may halt or slow down an insatiable logging industry that has been turning ancient trees into lumber at the rate of more than 55,000 acres of old growth a year. But for the owl to prevail, its status as a threatened species must be formally declared, a process that may take another year. Then it could become a federal crime even to disturb the owl's habitat...
Automated reservation systems are vast computer networks that the major carriers, notably American and United, use to dish out the most up-to-date flight information to travel agents. When linked to the systems, agents can check schedules, compare fares and book tickets. They can also make hotel and rental-car reservations as well as order tickets for Broadway shows or charter a private...
...multiparty government, said Sihanouk, "I will accept his government, his administration," and return home in October or November. Hun Sen responded symbolically by arriving in Jakarta with a new flag -- Sihanouk's red and blue, instead of Communist red -- a new anthem, and constitutional amendments to liberalize the economy, make Buddhism the state religion and bar capital punishment. The Prime Minister also announced that his country's name will henceforth revert from the People's Republic of Kampuchea to the old Sihanouk-era State of Cambodia...
This diplomatic vacuum is quite deliberate. Many aspects of American policy are still under debate; for example, Washington has not yet decided what changes, if any, to make in the framework for a start treaty that was all but agreed to by Gorbachev's and Ronald Reagan's negotiators. But the Administration's central theme is reasonably clear. In essence, George Bush proposes to stand pat and wait for Gorbachev to make the next move -- and probably the one after that and the one after that -- toward reducing tensions. As one senior American official puts it, the idea...