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Unexplored until the early years of this century, Antarctica holds largely scientific interest for Washington, which operates four permanent stations on the continent, including the only encampment at the South Pole. In 1959 the U.S. and eleven other nations agreed on a treaty banning military activity and all nuclear materials there. They and eight subsequent signatories became in effect the continent's government. Members included the countries that lay territorial claim to parts of Antarctica -- Argentina, Australia, Britain, Chile, France, New Zealand and Norway -- as well as the U.S. and the Soviet Union, which do not recognize the sovereignty...
Given their goals, it was not surprising that their fourth summit revolved around the ceremonial events rather than the one-on-one Reagan-Gorbachev meetings. With the Intermediate Nuclear Forces treaty ratified, the potential Strategic Arms Reduction Talks treaty bogged down and the Soviets pulling out of Afghanistan, there was not much top-level business to transact -- or at least not much that could get transacted given the constraints. Aides dutifully produced seven agreements, a procedure that has become de rigueur for summits lest they be popularly judged failures. But the agreements mostly concerned such minor matters as nuclear-testing...
...arrived in the U.S. in 1976 and put in stints at Viva and New York, before being named creative director of American Vogue in 1983 and editor of the British edition in 1986. In London her brusque approach to redesigning the already successful British Vogue earned her the sobriquets "nuclear Wintour" and "Wintour of our discontent." The shy editor clearly relishes power. "I'm the Conde Nast hit man," she told a friend. "I love coming in and changing magazines...
Tocsin was a huge success. The hard-core beginning of 10 to 40 members grew. With our first walk, to protest nuclear weapons, everyone wore blue armbands. It was moving because it showed people were listening. Very few campuses if any had more technocratic rationalists...
...Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) several years ago shut down several labs in the School of Public Health and at the Biochemistry Laboratories for failing to comply with NRC safety standards...