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...Geneva and undermine NATO's reliance on nuclear deterrence as the basis of alliance security. A U.S. invitation to the 15 other NATO members, as well as to Japan, Australia and Israel, to participate in the research scheme seems unlikely to remove those doubts, even if they do not prove to be well founded...
...return to substantial GNP gains will be needed if the White House's ambitious economic forecasts are to prove correct. The Administration last week trimmed its outlook for 1985 growth from 4% to 3.9%. That goal remains well above the 3.5% level that many private economists have been predicting, and may even be out of reach. Concedes Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige: "If this estimate we have now isn't changed, we would need to average 4.9% growth for the next three quarters. That would be difficult to achieve...
Skeptics, however, warned that the affair could prove a well-publicized waste of time. The U.S. especially feared that Nairobi could become a reprise of the 1980 conference on women in Copenhagen, where discussions about employment, health and education were sidetracked by heated confrontations among delegates over Zionism, imperialism, racism--essentially every ism but feminism...
...misleading to compare the economic condition of native blacks with that of immigrants as a group. U.S. immigration policies require prospective immigrants to prove they have sufficient financial resources to avoid becoming welfare recipients once they arrive. Thus most legal immigrants to this land of opportunity are above the poverty level and are already better off than the 36% of blacks who are below that line. Victor Thompson Fort Wayne...
...steep hill at Hiroshima Bay, where he swam as a child. This was the graveyard where he and the other boys used to test their courage: "In the daytime we would come up here and leave some personal belonging. In the night we would retrieve it, which would prove to the others that we were here...