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...will it be easy to monitor proposed reductions in conventional forces in Europe. Thousands of armored vehicles and artillery pieces will have to be destroyed by NATO and the Warsaw Pact, and hundreds of thousands of troops demobilized or redeployed. The treaty language must precisely define differences between aircraft capable of carrying either conventional or nuclear warheads. Under previous verification standards, that task would be hopeless: satellite photography and electronic sensors are not sophisticated enough to count warheads on a missile or peer inside production plants...
...pact gives the Vatican its first diplomatic toehold within the Soviet bloc.* The breakthrough is one result of a decision by Pope John XXIII in the early 1960s to launch a friendlier policy toward the Communist world. The negotiations that led to last week's recognition of Poland's Communist regime began in 1974. Throughout, Warsaw was far more eager for progress than the church, especially with the election in 1978 of the Polish Pope John Paul II. After Solidarity was outlawed in 1982, the Polish government became desperate for Vatican ties in order to win support among its devoutly...
Former Harvard running back Tony Hinz, currently competing in training camp with the New England Patriots, agreed to contract terms last week with the National Football League club. Details of the pact were not disclosed...
Boston College this week rejected such a pact, calling it unnecessarily restrictive, but Harvard and community officials say it may be one way of preventing future misunderstandings over the propriety of University purchases, and putting Harvard back in good standing with Allston-Brighton...
...issue nearly triggered a major trade confrontation between the two countries. Last week Japan defused the standoff by agreeing to remove barriers to foreign products in the lucrative Tokyo-area market for mobile-telephone and two-way-radio services. Said U.S. Trade Representative Carla Hills, who negotiated the pact: "The measures should provide immediate improvements for U.S. companies in these two high-growth segments of the Japanese telecommunications market...