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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fitting memento of their meeting. The President and the Russian diplomat had just concluded what may prove to be the most productive round of strategic arms limitation talks since Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev and Gerald Ford set SALT II guidelines in Vladivostok in November 1974. At his press conference later in the week, Carter said that the Soviets "have been fairly flexible in their attitude and we have tried to match their cooperative stance ... We have narrowed down the differences to a relatively small number." To avoid raising hopes, the President added that "an immediate agreement...
...five times above present levels in less than a decade. The Senate has voted the Administration less authority than it wanted to order plants to switch to coal, and Carter's plan to grant tax breaks to industry in order to spur conversion to coal use may not prove to be sufficient; the legislators would do well to vote more financial...
Another desperate young drug addict plundering to maintain his habit? Not at all. Defense Attorney Ellis Rubin, 52, claims Ronald Zamora is hooked on something far less exotic. Rubin's unusual trial strategy: to prove that Zamora is innocent because he "was suffering from and acted under the influence of prolonged, intense, involuntary, subliminal television intoxication...
...bullies, teases, threatens, roars and talks scatologically, concupiscently and incessantly. She also primps, daubs on garish makeup, strips off her blouse and carts loads of books to her desk only to hurl them irascibly about the room. What does all the sound and fury signify? Virtually nothing, except to prove that Parsons has the stamina of a deckhand and an awesome range of acting skills visibly being laid waste...
This year's version of Cornell soccer should prove to be of similar caliber. Following an opening 3-1 loss at Penn (the Quakers tied it up with 39 seconds left and went on to win in overtime), the Big Red has churned through its opponents like the Harvard heavyweight crew tears up the Charles...