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...pose for eager photographers. Later Shultz declared that three hours of private talks with his Soviet counterpart had provided a "good first step" toward the Geneva summit meeting between President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev scheduled for Nov. 19 and 20. The comment sent ripples of relief through Helsinki delegates representing the U.S., Canada and every European country except Albania. The 35 delegations had convened in the Finnish capital's modernistic Finlandia Hall to mark the tenth anniversary of the agreements on security and cooperation in Europe known as the Helsinki Accords. But for most of the participating...
...failed to express the panic, frustration and helplessness people feel when they discover their homes are unsafe because of radon contamination. The number of people affected by this gas is larger than the number of those involved in many natural disasters. Yet for radon victims, the Government provides no relief. Combatting radon by sealing walls and floors is not necessarily effective after a building is constructed. A better method is ventilating the soil around the home. Lester A. Slaback Jr. Gaithersburg...
...That Carew, 39, would get the single for California against his old team, the Minnesota Twins, was another wonder of happenstance. But his shorter ration of the day's glory was predictable. When Carew said, "I'm just very glad it's over," the sigh recalled Henry Aaron's relief in 1974 after hitting the 715th home run that bettered Babe Ruth. "Aaron was as good as Willie Mays," Pete Rose thinks, "just not as famous." In the year of Rose's assault on Ty Cobb, Carew took his usual place in the off-light with a practiced grace...
...film explores the friendship that brings relief to five Israeli female survivors of March 2002’s suicide bombing of the Matzah restaurant in Haifa, Israel. Ben-Dor presented her film on April 6 to a Harvard audience and offered deeper insight in a subsequent question-and-answer session and personal interview...
Freshman Shelly Madick, the reigning Ivy League Rookie of the Week and co-Pitcher of the Week, came on in relief of McAteer and could not keep pace with Daly. Sabotaged in part by her defense, Madick allowed four runs (two earned) in three innings of work and took the loss, falling to 5-4 on the season...