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...Before the advent of marine archaeology, notes Bass, "we knew more about the safety pins and sewers of Athens than we did about the ships that made Athens great." The hull of this wreck, for example, tells much about shipbuilding techniques. Apparently the vessel was constructed by building the outer shell first, then adding ribs for reinforcement, the same method utilized 1,000 years later. Bass surmises that the wreck will disclose a great deal about the ships used in the Trojan War, though probably nothing about the face that launched them. The cache of nearly two dozen cobalt-blue...
Reagan's Star Wars plan to provide a space-based defense against intercontinental ballistic missiles seemed to be emerging as one of the most contentious issues in both capitals. Chernenko mentioned "nonmilitarization of outer space" first in his list of topics to be negotiated, followed by a "reduction of strategic nuclear arms and medium-range nuclear weapons." (He invited Industrialist Armand Hammer, 86, a longtime friend of Soviet leaders, to Moscow as an unofficial pre-Geneva go-between, and Hammer readily accepted...
...Democrats have any incentive to meet him even halfway? Just as Reagan had to move to the center, they did too. Despite emotional support for a nuclear freeze and for the notion of banning nuclear weapons from outer space, voters did not favor positions they suspected might mean unilateral U.S. concessions. And if Reagan II is at all successful in improving U.S.-Soviet relations, the Democrats will have very little to gain from the issue. They would do better to ease the issue out of politics and earn at least some of the credit for embracing bipartisanship...
...statements to reporters. At the White House, National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane delivered the tidings deadpan. "The United States and the Soviet Union have agreed to enter into new negotiations," he reported, "with the objective of reaching mutually acceptable agreements on the whole range of questions concerning nuclear and outer-space arms...
...blocks is all the more depressing given what should be a fairly propitious atmosphere for an arms control agreement. All signs indicate that the Soviets have not taken lightly the unremitting Reagan arms build-up, and are now especially scared of his proposals to extend the arms race to outer space, where American technological capabilities far outstrip the Soviets'. They now know they have four more years of Reagan and seem prepared to deal...