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...PERSONAL FRIENDS WITH NEGROPONTE? I went to school with him. We agreed that we wouldn't talk about Yale. John and I have a pact: I won't tell if you won't tell...
Reacting to the pressure, the Lesotho government agreed last week to begin negotiations on a security pact that the South Africans have sought for the past four years. But even if it leads to a crackdown on antiapartheid activists in Lesotho, the agreement is unlikely to end the violence. Despite similar pacts with Mozambique and Swaziland, the A.N.C. tripled its attacks in South Africa last year...
...Wars, program. The Japanese, led by Foreign Secretary Shintaro Abe, countered by expressing "strong regret" over the Soviet military buildup in the northwestern Pacific, including the deployment of an estimated 135 SS-20 intermediate-range nuclear missiles. Discussions on economic matters proved more constructive. The two countries signed a pact governing taxes on Soviet-Japanese trade and agreed to meet annually for talks on development projects in Siberia...
...Vikings for antisubmarine warfare. By 1991, Secretary Lehman is all but assured of having three new Nimitz-class nuclear carriers. Lehman makes clear that he wants a carrier force that can engage and defeat the Soviet navy. At the outbreak of a war between NATO and the Warsaw Pact in Europe, he would send carriers storming toward Norway to block the Soviet fleet from reaching the North Atlantic. Sinking the Soviet navy, Lehman argues, would turn the battle of Europe, just as the Battle of Trafalgar ended Napoleon's dream of conquering England and the Battle of Midway first turned...
...that research, development and testing of new technologies--just about everything short of actual deployment--are allowed under the treaty. But there is dispute on this point, and the Administration has said in the past that it will abide by what it calls a "strict" interpretation of the pact, one that permits research but not full-scale development of new systems...