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...were near. At the close of 1967, the official invocation of the light at the end of the tunnel was still ritual. The New York Times, influenced by Government briefings, reported in late December that "military indicators in Viet Nam present the most dramatic and clear-cut evidence of progress in the war since the dark days...
Operatically, there are Mozart's youthful Il sogno di Scipione and Vaughan Williams' radiant vision of the celestial city, The Pilgrim's Progress. And some company could put itself on the map with a production of Soviet Composer Yuri Shaporin's spectacular Dekabristi (The Decembrists), a thrilling musical melange of Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky and Shostakovich that is also a vivid piece of theater...
National Geographic maps have long set the standard for cartography. They are so accurate that Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill reportedly followed the progress of World War II on them. Under the direction of Chief Cartographer John B. Garver Jr., the map department entered the computer age in 1983 with the acquisition of a specialized computer that enables mapmakers to modify roads, rivers, borders and country names without wholesale revision. Subscribers now receive six poster-size maps a year, each produced by the society's 130 researchers and mapmakers at a cost of $1 million...
Going forward to Moscow is now in the President's plans, and he dares hope for some progress on a treaty that will begin to reduce strategic nuclear missiles. Just as Reagan still wants Gorbachev to savor the America that lies beyond Washington, the General Secretary extolled Moscow and the great Russian land. "I had hoped for a few extra days for him to see this country," Reagan said. "It just did not work out. He said that he would like to come back and see some of the country. I made it plain to both of the Gorbachevs that...
...been some hope that Gorbachev would announce a starting date for a promised Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan, but he declined to do so unless Reagan cut off aid to the Afghan rebels. There was no agreement, either, on Nicaragua or the Persian Gulf. Commenting on the lack of progress in these areas, Administration officials pointed out that in private meetings Gorbachev was much tougher than the charming image he offered to the public. "What you have gained is a guy you can talk to," said one Reagan aide, "but when it comes to substantive changes, forget...