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...What will the Maldives be like a couple of centuries from now? Will its corals have adapted to warmer conditions, as some think possible, or will they be forced to seek refuge in artificially maintained reefs? And what of its people, now spread out across 200 islands? Will they retreat to a few fortified strongholds and learn to live, as the Dutch have, behind high walls that cut them off from the sea? It's not as dramatic a fate as being overrun by a rising tide, perhaps, but in its own way it's just as chilling...
...only did Gorbachev repeat Moscow's line that there could be no agreement on reducing offensive nuclear weapons without an accompanying ban on Star Wars development, but he appeared to retreat from what leniency he had previously displayed. In an August interview with TIME, Gorbachev had hinted that he might accept some SDI research, since laboratory activities cannot be verified anyway. But last week, said one American, Gorbachev seemed to be insisting on a "complete ban on every activity in any way related to strategic defense...
...faculty are expressing concern over the way the grant was handled and the school’s dean expressed regret for his role in the situation at a faculty retreat last month, according to one SPH professor...
...agreeing not to make meaningful cuts in either Social Security or defense, congressional bookkeeping will almost surely become even more imaginative. Asked if the House budget was not fashioned from "smoke and mirrors," Democrat Vic Fazio of California responded not by answering, but by gloating over the G.O.P retreat on Social Security cuts. Never mind that the deficit will go on growing; just think of the political profits. Chuckled Fazio: "They'll be sucking our smoke." --By Evan Thomas. Reported by Sam Allis and Christopher Redman/Washington
...Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach also proposed an end to Viet Nam's six-year occupation of Kampuchea, suggesting negotiated power sharing between Prince Norodom Sihanouk, Kampuchea's former head of state, and the Hanoi-backed regime of Heng Samrin. This could work, said Thach, only after a retreat into exile could be arranged for Pol Pot, the notorious Communist leader of Kampuchea's Khmer Rouge...