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...arrival was less than auspicious. A freak autumn fog blanketed Moscow's four airports; Shultz, Carlucci and their 110-member traveling party were forced to make the 700-mile journey from Helsinki to the Soviet capital on an overnight train. When they arrived, they knew that even without the unexpected hitch on Star Wars, sticky details on the INF pact still had to be resolved...
...placed a disappointing 10th, as the Crimson finished a full 69 points out of eighth place. Nationally-ranked Dartmouth won the team competition, but it was a Brown runner, Chris Schille, who took first place with a Heps record of 24:08.1 for the five-mile championship course at Van Cortlandt Park. The first Harvard runner was Tim Langen, who finished 1:45 back...
...months of being started up last year, when it suffered another setback: Chernobyl. The meltdown at the Soviet nuclear plant in April 1986 prompted Democratic Governor Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts to block the opening by refusing to participate in an evacuation plan for the area within a ten-mile radius of the plant. Last week, however, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's staff recommended a controversial change in federal rules that would allow such plants to proceed over the objections of neighboring officials...
...Jeep Cherokees, the Japanese versions just do not have the oomph needed to haul his 3,000-lb. boat: "The Isuzu Trooper just couldn't pull it." Nor are the teeny trucks well suited to long-distance drives. Atlanta Salesman Stewart Powell, 25, describes a "miserable" 200-mile journey in his Samurai: "It's like driving a go-cart. On the highway the engine is really loud, and you feel like you're surrounded by tin." Then again, there is a downside to virtually all jeeps: four-wheel drive means lower gas mileage...
...jostling lunch crowds or bumper-to-bumper commutes. Instead, the married couple can take quiet strolls through 25 acres of birch and spruce forest. Reason: their office is in their three-bedroom, 3,500-sq.- ft. home on Alaska's remote Kenai peninsula. The nearest neighbor lives half a mile away, and now and then a moose wanders into the yard. "There are days when I wish I had someone to talk to," says Robin, who along with Tom spent eight years working in California's bustling Silicon Valley after they graduated from Stanford University. "But every time I look...