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...defense, practicable or not, has an appeal that will make it difficult for the Kremlin to drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies. Though Andreotti told Gromyko that Italy shares Soviet concern about the presence of military weapons in space, he firmly defended the U.S. right to proceed with research on Star Wars technology. Britain and West Germany, while still harboring strong doubts about eventual deployment, have independently grown more interested in the research program's industrial potential; one key West German defense official predicts that it will lead to "a third technological revolution." French Foreign Minister Roland...
...Star Wars will work and who fear that the program will provoke a surge in offensive arms. Without public and congressional support for the program, U.S. negotiators in Geneva will stand no chance at all. Only if the Kremlin leaders believe that the U.S. fully and firmly intends to proceed toward deployment of Star Wars will they reconsider their opposition to the idea of moving in tandem toward the high frontier of space defenses...
Phillips Petroleum, meanwhile, was still feeling the effects last week of its encounter with Pickens. Financier Carl Icahn, who opposes a December agreement that ended the Pickens-Phillips fight, was cleared by a court ruling to proceed with his own takeover bid for the Oklahoma company...
...popularity of minimalist music spreads and the avant-garde of the '70s pushes further out into the culture, some odd alliances spring up in the artistic landscape. Who would expect to see dancers in the American Ballet Theater stride jauntily onstage carrying ordinary metal folding chairs and proceed to use them as partners? But that is what they do in Choreographer and Performance Artist David Gordon's clever new work--his first ballet ever --called Field, Chair and Mountain, and audiences on A.B.T.'s current national tour cheer them on at every performance. In a New York City Ballet premiere...
Senators from agricultural states allowed the debate on the controversial appointment to proceed, but held out the possibility of a filibuster to prevent a vote on Meese until their demands...