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...State Department is arguing for a swift and substantive counterproposal to get the summit preparations moving, while the Pentagon and the CIA oppose any concessions that would threaten Star Wars. A meeting last week of midlevel arms-control advisers ended "in total disagreement," said one participant. "We are bogged down here, really stalemated." Unflagging support for SDI also dims the prospect for any agreement on nuclear testing. The Soviets have called for a total moratorium and have not detonated a nuclear device since August 1985. But some of the weapons envisioned by SDI require underground nuclear tests. The Pentagon argues...
Responding to a perceived lack of midlevel offerings, the Fine Arts Department is considering revamping its undergraduate curriculum as early as 1986, professors said this week...
...major problem with the reforms, Western economists believe, is that they were never put fully into effect. Despite Kosygin's enthusiasm, the reforms were effectively sabotaged at midlevel, notably by the Ministry of Finance. Beyond that were problems at the local level. Factory managers who developed the capacity to overfulfill their production quotas, for example, frequently had trouble finding enough raw materials to do so. The reason: allocation of most industrial supplies remained under central control. Capital projects were stalled midway by the same kind of shortages, leaving the landscape cluttered with half-completed factory annexes and office buildings...