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...President flew back to Washington, a high-level task force assembled at the State Department to ponder appropriate U.S. countermeasures. There was general agreement that the Administration should not do yet another about-face on the grain deal, since Reagan had criticized President Jimmy Carter's embargo and a second one would virtually eliminate the U.S. as a credible trading partner. The various courses of action considered ranged from U.S. support of expected retaliation by airline pilots all the way up to a postponement of the Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces (INF) talks, scheduled to resume this week in Geneva...
...charismatic prodigy of science and friendship and progressive hell raising who opted out of academe to try social work, then manual labor, then suicide. He is presented as a victim of terminal decompression from the orbital flight of his college years: a worst-case scenario his friends must ponder, probing themselves for symptoms of the disease...
...idea that had changed America forever, and partly in fresh complaint, to push for dreams that remain unfulfilled. The second March on Washington was thus both an opportunity to measure the sometimes astonishing distances the nation has traveled on the road to racial equality and a time to ponder its new and less certain agenda for the future. King's long-stilled eloquence was missing, of course, but it was not far from anyone's mind. "I can assure you that Martin Luther King Jr. will be marching with us and that he will still be leading...
...Governor of Texas and presidential hopeful wants to sell off some of his acquisitions. Price: $12,000 to $15,000 apiece. After all, argues Fenn, "If they're as good as real, then what the hell are we talking about? I mean, what is art?" A question to ponder...
...send Special Envoy McFarlane to Syria this week to pursue a goal that both his predecessor Philip Habib and Secretary of State Shultz have failed to achieve: the mutual withdrawal of Israeli and Syrian troops. A rookie in Middle East affairs, McFarlane might want to ponder the wisdom of the sign that hangs in the office of the United Nations peace-keeping force in the Lebanese town of Naqura. "If you're not confused by Lebanon," says the sign, "you don't understand...