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...possibility of an INF agreement. In this kind of thing, you can say you're "this close," but "this close" can be as good as a mile if you don't have an agreement. The facts are that if you take their INF position and ours at the start of these negotiations and compare the situation now, as Shevardnadze and I did in Washington, you see that there is a great deal of change, and you can identify perhaps three or four areas that need to be the focus of negotiations. With respect to three of the four, there...
...live in the style of a Down East grand seigneur. The family occupies a 23-room, 129-year-old house ! surrounded by a black iron fence with interwoven designs of bats and spider webs, installed in an excess of whimsy by the owners. The place is within a mile of the down-at-the-heels section of town where the Kings began their odyssey. It has an eccentric charm appropriate to the tenants: one cupola is conical, the other square. Tabitha, 37, works in a spacious front room of the main house; there she has written three published novels. Each...
Some 270 wells are being sunk in the Tazerbo and Sarir areas, more than 300 miles south of Benghazi. Plans call for additional wells to be drilled south of Tripoli and for more then half of Libya's 1,100-mile coastline to be linked by the pipeline. Later, irrigation schemes, food-processing plants and factories are to be added...
...indeed daunting. Some 160,000 ships, boats and pleasure craft enter U.S. harbors, bays and inlets annually. There are about 88,000 border crossings by aircraft every year. "To honor the House directives," said Weinberger, "the Pentagon would have to find some way of enforcing a 4,000-mile naval blockade...
...because the presence of the contras on Honduran soil violates the principle of self-determination enshrined in the country's constitution. Honduran officials are therefore wont to deny the guerrillas' presence in one breath and, in the next, to explain that the contras are needed to defend the 508-mile border with Nicaragua. Having seen the Sandinistas invade their country in pursuit of contras only last March, some Hondurans believe the guerrillas are not preventing war so much as provoking it. "Of course U.S. economic aid helps us," says Efrain Diaz, head of the opposition Christian Democratic Party, "but Honduras...