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...these travels was to arrange a climactic summit between Deng and Gorbachev in Beijing this spring, perhaps in May. The easing of tensions is certain to produce diplomatic fallout of global importance. It could lead to a new era of stability in Asia, where the 4,500-mile Chinese- Soviet border sometimes threatened to become the fuse for war, perhaps even nuclear conflict. The U.S. might be losing its "China card," but the world will gain a new style of superpower diplomacy: no more will China be the stick for the U.S. to beat the Soviets, or for the Soviets...
...mile relay, an official pulled Jackie Ball off the track and away from receiving the baton because he miscounted the laps of the incoming runner, Co-Captain Elizabeth Ross. The official apparently thought Ross had one more lap to go when, in fact, she was finished...
...mile relay team of Rainey, Beth Pfefferle, Wanita Lopeter and Lauren DiStefano, turned in a time of 3:54.68, its best time of the year...
...stem the flow of drugs and illegal aliens across its 2,000-mile border with Mexico, the U.S. has resorted not only to armed patrols but also to fences, closed-circuit television monitors and electronic sensors. Now it is making a last-ditch effort -- literally. For one thing, the Immigration and Naturalization Service will expand its force of border patrolmen by a third, to 4,300, by year's end. On top of that, the INS announced last week that it plans to dig a $2 million ditch along a four-mile stretch of border near San Diego, where some...
...extensive subterranean projects without disturbing the people aboveground. The Tokyo Electric company already has a high-voltage power station right below a Buddhist temple. Engineers are confident that they can create enormous underground structures with little danger of cave-ins. They point to such construction breakthroughs as the 33.5-mile-long Seikan Tunnel, the world's longest underwater corridor, which connects Japan's main island of Honshu with Hokkaido to the north...