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...portrayed West Germany and the U.S. as Hitler's successors. Soviet commentators have accused the West Germans of "revanchism," or wanting to retake German territories lost in the war, and have condemned Reagan's Bitburg visit as paying homage to the Nazis. The Soviets gloss over Moscow's nonaggression pact with Hitler, which lasted for 22 months before the Nazi dictator broke the agreement by invading the U.S.S.R. in June...
...Problem: a deterioration in Soviet-American relations. Cause: a lack of "understanding" between the two leaderships. Solution: a summit with Gorbachev. -- Problem: the threat of nuclear war. Cause: traditional deterrence, which relies on the suicide pact of Mutual Assured Destruction. Solution: render offensive nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete with the Strategic Defense Initiative...
...breeze: "It's Highway I-65 out there." That cinched what had been the popular wisdom all week. This race would turn on the two speedballs in the field of 13: Spend A Buck and Eternal Prince. Should both dart out ahead, might they form a suicide pact? "Sure, they could kill each other," Jockey Angel Cordero had agreed with a poisonous smile, "but I promise you one thing, Eternal Prince won't ever get in front of my horse." His horse was Spend A Buck. Fidgeting inside the fifth slot of the gate, Eternal Prince cocked his head left...
...reflecting the Reagan Administration's commitment to free trade with all nations." The White House, which hopes that the agreement will encourage a loosening of trade restrictions around the world, approved the unique arrangement in part as a way to bolster the ailing Israeli economy. Israel, which sought the pact since 1981, last year sold $1.6 billion worth of merchandise to the U.S., while importing $1.8 billion in American products...
...days after the Central Committee meeting, Gorbachev flew to Warsaw, where he was greeted by Poland's General Wojciech Jaruzelski before joining in ceremonies to renew the Warsaw Pact alliance among East bloc countries. At the formal signing ceremonies, where the 30-year-old alliance was extended for 20 years, plus the option of an additional decade, Gorbachev spoke forcefully but broke no new ground. Said he: "More than once we have expressed readiness to dissolve the Warsaw Treaty if NATO should agree to respond in kind. This principled stand continues to be fully valid." What undoubtedly impressed...