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...Soviets had telegraphed their maneuver days in advance. At an unusual Moscow press conference, Marshal Nikolai Ogarkov, Chief of Staff of the Soviet armed forces, used colored charts and a pointer to illustrate how, in the Soviet view, U.S. proposals at START were moving "in the same direction"-toward breakdown-as the foundered INF negotiations. Ogarkov reiterated the principal Soviet START proposal: a ceiling for both sides of 1,800 "strategic launchers," consisting of intercontinental ballistic missile silos, submarine-launched missile tubes and intercontinental bombers...
...finishing touches with his fourth field goal of the day, a 19-yarder with 5:56 remaining in the game. Until the Jets' 23-point explosion in the second half, the only scores of the game had come on a first-quarter field goal by Leahy and a three-pointer at the start of the second half by New England's Fred Steinfort...
...scene of the battle, and with little detail coming from the Pentagon, reporters did what they could; the television networks used file footage, lively electronic graphics and innumerable maps of Grenada. ABC stood its Pentagon correspondent, Jack Smith, in front of a table model of the island with a pointer to explain what the Pentagon said was happening. On Wednesday, CBS Correspondent Sandy Gilmour chartered a plane in Barbados to capture the first television pictures not supplied by the Government. He taped the naval activity around Grenada from a distance until a U.S. jet fighter cut precariously close to chase...
...principal long-shot candidate resembled the favorite: Scowcroft, 58, is a sort of McFarlane with a Ph.D. He is a West Pointer who came to the Nixon White House a year after McFarlane; both worked from 1973 to 1975 for Kissinger, and Scowcroft retained McFarlane as his deputy when he succeeded Kissinger as Ford's National Security Adviser. More recently Scowcroft has been chairman of Reagan's blue-ribbon MX-missile commission, an important role that the White House might be reluctant to muddle by asking him to serve once more as in-house adviser. Scowcroft...
Police officials said they have received 15 similar complaints in the last three weeks about the man. The victims accounts typically described a surprise visit by a stranger who identified himself as a Harvard student the actor Sidney pointer's son and the friend of one of the resident's relatives...