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...Soviet gambit came with surprising swiftness and adroit timing. It was aimed squarely at public opinion in Western Europe, where the SDI is perceived by some to reduce the chances for arms reductions, just as a battered Reagan was scheduled to arrive there. While not rebuffing Gorbachev's offer outright, the State Department expressed cautious doubts that the proposal went far beyond previous Soviet formulations that the U.S. had found unacceptable. For his part, Reagan at week's end pronounced himself still "very willing" to meet with Gorbachev if, as expected, the Soviet leader attends the opening...
...find yourself an out-of-the-way island in the Aegean--almost any of them will serve--and spend a week doing nothing. The wild flowers are already out by now, whole fields of yellow and purple, and there are rumors that habitable seaside cottages can still be bought outright for as little...
...days when a big network mini-series could mobilize the country around its TV sets night after night seem to have vanished. Though none of this season's mini-series were outright bombs, all fell short of smash ratings. Despite A.D.'s stars (James Mason, Ava Gardner), spectacle and heavy pretelecast promotion, it attracted only 19.2% of the nation's TV viewers. That is above average but no larger than the audience for a typical episode of Magnum, P.I. The most popular three-parter of the season, ABC's Hollywood Wives, drew an unspectacular 22.8 rating, much lower than...
Despite a unanimous rejection of Harvard's proposal to demolish a historic building, a city official said yesterday that the vote is more a call for new plans than an outright objection to developing the site...
...reality, the U.S. and Japan were still a long way from an outright trade war, which would involve a series of trade reprisals by both sides. "Like real wars," says I.M. Destler, a senior fellow at the Institute for International Economics in Washington, "trade wars tend to leave everybody worse off." Two years after Washington passed the virulently protectionist Smoot-Hawley bill in 1930, the wave of trade and currency reprisals that it provoked slashed U.S. exports by 60%, helping deepen the Great Depression. Japan's obsession with maintaining supplies of raw materials for its export industries was largely responsible...