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Such thinking is likely to gain force in the wake of Gorbachev's Saturday response to Bush's nuclear initiatives. The Soviet President, who telephoned Bush at Camp David to give him a 20-minute preview of his proposals, followed the U.S. in taking strategic bombers off alert and moving their nuclear weapons into warehouses. Gorbachev also followed Bush in scrapping tactical nuclear missiles, land based as well as naval. In addition, he proposed negotiations to reduce the number of remaining strategic weapons by half, while at the same time announcing that from now on Soviet mobile missiles would...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Defense: Much Less Than Meets the Eye | 10/14/1991 | See Source »

...part of the mission behind your books educational? You devote large sections of the books to historical preview... Most Americans assume, for example, that the Bill of Rights extended to the federal and the state level. Are you trying to show them different...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Court and Constitution: A Talk with Anthony Lewis | 10/10/1991 | See Source »

Beyond Mackay-Smith's office--cluttered with schedules of Orientation Week and notes for an impending meeting with proctors--the receptionist had already received a preview of things to come: one father (who admitted to sneaking into Strauss Hall before the September 6 opening date) had called to complain about his son's room...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Spicing Up First-Year With a Touch of Ginger | 9/13/1991 | See Source »

Beyond Mackay-Smith's office--cluttered with schedules of Orientation Week and notes for an impending meeting with proctors--the receptionist had already received a preview of things to come: one father (who admitted to sneaking into Strauss Hall before the September 6 opening date) had called to complain about his son's room...

Author: By Joshua W. Shenk, | Title: Spicing Up First Year With a Touch of Ginger | 9/11/1991 | See Source »

...crossing the border into Kuwait is like getting a preview of the apocalypse. In the distance greasy smoke spurts from torched oil wells, sending up dozens of black funnels that look like infernal tornadoes. Overhead the plumes merge to form a charcoal cloud that blocks out the sun. Flakes of white ash tumble from the sky like dry, malignant snow. "Some days are so dark," says a photographer who is covering the fires, "I have to use a flashlight at nine in the morning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kuwait Life Under a Cloud | 4/29/1991 | See Source »

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