Word: mutually
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Despite all the blarney, Reagan and Mulroney managed to get some business done. They signed a Pacific Salmon Treaty, ending a 15-year dispute over the harvesting of the valuable food fish on the U.S. and Canadian west coasts. They initialed a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty, linking their two countries in law enforcement. They also noted that Canada will participate in the $8 billion manned space-station program planned by the U.S. for the mid-1990s. Canada is no stranger to space technology, since Ontario-based Spar Aerospace Ltd. built the mechanical arm used in the U.S. space shuttle...
...told U.S. reporters after the summit ended, "but in my view this will go down as the most productive meeting in U.S.-Canadian history." What particularly delighted Reagan was that after years of often strained relations, Canada and the U.S. were once again getting along and working together on mutual defense. Washington has made no secret of its concern about the "nuclear allergy" that recently led New Zealand to bar from its harbors nuclear-powered or nuclear-armed U.S. Navy vessels. Administration officials believe that Reagan's achievements in Quebec City will strengthen his hand in dealing with other...
...also be the country of Himmler and Eichmann? It is a question that has vexed the world for decades. Perhaps a better question is: What other country could it have been? The Germans have long been able to hold two opposing ideas in mind and remain untroubled by their mutual exclusivity. Only in Germany could Weimar and Buchenwald coexist, each denying the other's nature. "I wish and ask that our rulers who have Jewish subjects exercise a sharp mercy toward these wretched people," wrote Luther in 1543. "They must act like a good physician who, when gangrene...
During the first two years of his White House tenure, Ronald Reagan rarely immersed himself in the arcane details of nuclear issues. The difficult minutiae seemed to bore him. But one broader element intrigued him: the question of whether there was any realistic alternative to Mutual Assured Destruction. To Reagan, MAD was the equivalent of two men pointing cocked pistols at each other...
...doesn't have their slippery finish; he doesn't live on the sharp end, which means always flying first class and riding in stretch limos known as Autocrats. Slick's library consists of about 13 titles: Home Tax Guide, Treasure Island, The Usurers, Timon of Athens, Consortium, Our Mutual Friend, Buy Buy Buy, Silas Marner, Success!, The Pardoner's Tale, Confessions of a Bailiff, The Diamond as Big as the Ritz and The Amethyst Inheritance. When a woman refuses him until he has read Animal Farm, he makes a surprising discovery: "The big thing about reading and all that...