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...recent U.S. underground test of a nuclear device had exceeded the 150-kiloton limit permissible under the 1974 Treaty on the Limitation of Underground Nuclear Weapon Tests, President Reagan, in a letter to Gorbachev, invited the Soviet Union to send experts to monitor the next U.S. test in Nevada. That essentially painless suggestion, similar to an offer Reagan made last year, was intended to show U.S. goodwill in developing arms-control-verification procedures that Washington has long sought...
...presented investors with many opportunities, but nothing quite like the stock of Strong Point, a little-known Irvine, Calif., real estate firm. In its strategic plan to diversify, Strong Point has fixed on an unlikely industry: prostitution. Last week the publicly traded company paid $18 million to acquire Nevada's Mustang Ranch, the largest legal brothel in the U.S. "It looked like a terrific investment opportunity," says John Davis, the company's president. The ranch currently features two bunkhouses with 108 bedrooms, a staff of 100, two neglected tennis courts and 495 acres. Since the ranch is popular with tourists...
Strong Point acquired the ranch from Joe and Sally Conforte, who needed the money to pay off $10 million in back taxes. The couple has operated the bordello since 1964, and became legitimate proprietors in 1971 when Nevada lifted many restrictions on prostitution. The new owners hope to make the ranch semirespectable as well. Says Davis: "Since I've gotten more involved, I'm finding the whole attitude toward it is changing...
According to some Philippine opposition leaders, the violence was an outgrowth of the regime's new get-tough policy, which is seen as a response to the visit to Manila two weeks ago of U.S. Senator Paul Laxalt. The Nevada Republican, who is a close friend of President Reagan's, met with Marcos to relay Washington's concerns about the growing Communist insurgency in the country. "There appears to be a go signal from Washington to Marcos to tighten the screws on protesters," said Homobono Adaza, an opposition member of the Filipino National Assembly. At midweek Marcos warned that...
...signal may have helped catalyze Marcos' latest surprise venture, it was a four-day visit to Manila last month by Republican Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Laxalt held two meetings with the Philippine leader. At one of them, the U.S. legislator passed along a three-page letter from President Reagan outlining his personal worries about the local situation. As a Laxalt aide recalled last week, Marcos was the first to mention presidential elections, only to reject the idea. By the second meeting, according to the aide, Marcos had changed his mind, at least in principle, and had become "enthusiastic" about...