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...able to see themselves and their prejudices through Chloe and make the appropriate adjustments toward the truth. The enterprise will leave some unsatisfied. Persian Nights is neither a bodice ripper nor a + treatise on the Iranian revolution, but an intriguing compromise: an attempt to show major upheavals as a progress of small shocks...
...country's dropping the charges "does not have any effect on Cornell's action in the case," said Thomas J. McCormick, the the university's judicial administrator. The university's penal investigation, still in progress, is completely independent of the district attorney's office, he said...
...campaigners. And last October TIME featured excerpts from Alone Together, the autobiography of Bonner. Says Talbott of Sakharov's views in this week's issue: "His arms-control advice could hardly be more timely. It comes just as the negotiations in Geneva are showing their first serious signs of progress since the debacle at Reykjavik...
When it comes to disarmament negotiations, the devil is truly in the details. While the arms talks showed such progress last week that Yuli Vorontsov, the chief Soviet negotiator, predicted that an agreement could be reached by summer, it is still to be seen whether the momentum can be sustained. Both Gorbachev and Reagan would certainly like to hold a successful summit later this year -- maybe even one at which they exchange pens after initialing an arms-control agreement. But a lot of tough bargaining will have to take place before anyone can pull...
...were formed during the years I spent on nuclear weapons; in my struggle against testing of these weapons in the atmosphere, underwater or in space; in my public activities and writing; in the human-rights movement; and in Gorky isolation. My fundamental ideas were reflected in a 1968 essay, "Progress, Peaceful Coexistence, and Intellectual Freedom," but since then life has brought many changes that have forced me to modify my position and make it applicable to specific circumstances. I am referring in particular to recent changes in the domestic life and foreign policy of the U.S.S.R...