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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have spoken just now about "certain people" in Washington who seem to you to be trying to undermine the progress of U.S.-Soviet relations, but President Reagan himself has said on a number of occasions that there is no hostility toward the Soviet Union, that he is not seeking unilateral advantage or superiority over the Soviet Union. How do you take these assurances from the President? Do you accept them? More broadly, what are your impressions so far of President Reagan...
...material status of a considerable number of retired people, to allocate annually, free of charge, about 1 million plots of land for planting orchards, for people to have what you call a "second home." We are planning many other steps as well. Their scope will naturally depend on progress in the economy. Of late, positive changes have become evident: the rates of industrial production and labor productivity have increased...
...speak openly about our dissatisfaction with the scientific and technological level of this or that type of product. Yet we are counting on accelerating scientific and technological progress not through "a transfer of technology" from the U.S. to the U.S.S.R., but through "transfusions" of the most advanced ideas, discoveries and innovations from Soviet science to Soviet industry and agriculture, through more effective use of our own scientific and technological potential. That is the thrust of our plans and programs. At the same time, we would naturally not like to forgo those additional advantages that are provided by reciprocal scientific...
...Florida, the Republicans claimed to have won 28,064 defectors, a respectable number, if considerably short of the 45,000 goal for that state. Yet only 9,203 new registration cards had been processed. The party also counted some 2,500 unprocessed cards and added 15,986 "changes in progress"--voters who had promised to register as Republicans. The R.N.C. used similar arithmetic in the three other target states, and threw in reregistrations in California to hit the 100,000 mark. In all, the drive cost $750,000 and netted only 54,179 actual registrations in the four states. "Operation...
...spot for San Francisco. He had spoken of Florida. And he had long been obsessed with Burnt Cabins, Pa., a hamlet about 60 miles southwest of Harrisburg that according to Wiley had been the scene of a bizarre crime in 1965 and was the setting of his novel in progress...