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...proper perspective. The grandiose displays of unity at Versailles and Bonn will remind all of the participants, as well as the rest of the world, that the allies still share a good deal of common ground. While the Soviets have found it necessary to quash dissent within the Warsaw Pact by brute force and intimidation, disputes within the Western alliance, however deep they may seem, are testaments to what is clearly a more genuine cohesion. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Laurence I. Barrett/Washington and Lawrence Malkin/ Paris, with European bureaus...
...Both the U.S. and the Soviets are informally honoring the terms of SALT I and SALT II, although neither is officially in effect; Moscow has even dismantled nine submarines in accordance with SALT II's restrictions. The Joint Chiefs of Staff have also urged Reagan to honor the pact, arguing that if it were tossed aside, the Soviets would be able to add new warheads much more quickly than the U.S. Some officials are worried about signs that the Soviets may soon resume testing of the SS-16, a mobile intercontinental missile that was forbidden by SALT...
...CONCEIVABLE, indeed likely, that Reagan would like nothing more than to belie his reputation for bellicosity and achieve an arms control pact which vindicates his "build-up and reduce" philosophy. As with Nixon's opening to China. Reagan is unlikely to be undercut by a fatal right-wing reaction should he begin treating U.S. Soviet relations as something other than an undeclared...
...country was "technically at war" with Britain. Costa Méndez took his case to a Washington meeting of foreign ministers of the Organization of American States. There Argentina intended to invoke the 1947 Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance, to which the U.S. is a party. That pact, also known as the Treaty of Rio, stipulates that an armed attack against any one of the signatories will be considered an attack against them all and provides for various sanctions against the aggressor...
...refinery-but, surrounded by the marauders, they cannot escape to use their precious petrol. Into this version of cattlemen vs. homesteaders rides a scurvy Shane: Max (Mel Gibson), once the leader of a vengeful highway patrol, now a misanthropic me-firster. For the technical challenge, Max makes an uneasy pact with the refiners. He will help them break through the cordon of marauders and speed them toward their image of paradise: the seacoast, 200 miles away, and peaceful freedom...