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...actually have moved it backward. Reagan indicated to Gorbachev that he wants to loosen the strictures on the development and testing of exotic defenses so that the 1972 pact would permit the U.S. to proceed unfettered with SDI if and when the program is ready to move from the laboratories on earth to experiments in space. That is exactly what the Soviets want to stop, since they would then have to develop expensive offensive and defensive countermeasures. Moreover, for the record at least, Reagan remains committed to eventual deployment...
...temporary accord will remain in place until Dec. 31. Meanwhile, trade officials will try to hammer out a permanent pact. "It buys time," concluded Frans Andriessen, vice president of the E.C. commission. Said a pleased Yeutter: "U.S. exports will be unharmed while we negotiate a fair settlement...
Nicolae Ceausescu has headed the country since 1965, but is in failing health, reportedly suffering from cancer of the prostate. Under his rule, Rumania (pop. 23 million) has sometimes steered a diplomatic course independent of Moscow. The country, for example, refused to participate in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968, does not allow the military organization to hold maneuvers on its soil, and refused to endorse the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
London's lobbying effort was directed at the extradition treaty signed by the two governments nearly a year ago but stalled in Senate subcommittee ever since. It would change a provision of the previous pact, signed in l972, that has allowed Irish Republican Army gunmen taking refuge in the U.S. to escape extradition by claiming that their crimes were "political." The new treaty would make it easier for U.S. courts to send terrorists back to the United Kingdom for trial...
...pavilions of the Big Three, the U.S., the Soviet Union and China. The bad news is they are far apart from one another, and the lines in front are among the longest; the worse news is that they all seem to have signed a big-power pact to be boring...