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...making the labor-for-tax argument the main reason behind the need for the universal draft program, Hart and Torricelli turn what could have been an attack on the Reagan right into a retreat...
...Soviets did not budge, however, on their opposition to Star Wars. In fact, the formal Soviet proposal appeared to retreat from Gorbachev's suggestion to TIME last month that the Kremlin might at least agree to permit "fundamental" research on space-based defense systems. The Soviet proposal stipulates a prohibition on "development (including scientific research) of space strike weapons." In Geneva, Karpov did leave a little maneuvering room by stating, with studied ambiguity, that "we're not against basic research--we never were. We are against research that leads to the creation of space strike weapons." If the Soviets insist...
...hard-driving entrepreneur is now in retreat. Last week, in a coup engineered by angry franchisees, Millard was forced to step down as ComputerLand's chief executive officer. He and his daughter Barbara, 27 whom Millard installed as president last November, relinquished all day-to-day operating control of the Oakland-based company...
Attending a retreat with a group of priests in Youngstown last week, Malone told TIME, "What we need now is not to turn aside from Vatican II teaching but to grasp it with new enthusiasm and to pursue its implementation with new vigor." Since the synod will provide only two weeks to do that, Malone's report also asserted, it might be time for a special U.S. synod to deal with Vatican II. Though the U.S. bishops meet briefly once or twice a year, their last extended national council was in 1884. The U.S. bishops' conference and the Vatican have...
...promotion to help convince developers that a working trout stream could enhance the value of their real estate properties. Starting with small projects around Bozeman, McIntyre began advertising in fly-fishing magazines and putting out brochures describing his work. He has rehabilitated a stream for an oil-company retreat in Pennsylvania, studied a river in New York's Catskill Mountains and designed a trout environment for the Milwaukee...