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...more absurd collection of trivia and maudlin, boring gossip than the Charles and Diana story would be difficult to imagine. Why we Americans should continue to be so obsessed with the comings and goings of an effete and parasitic monarchy, which we shed our blood in 1776 to be rid of, will forever remain a mystery to me. This is not to denigrate the civility or the quality of other British cultural institutions for which we have a deep and abiding respect. But after all is said, God bless the Republic. Jerome L. Starr New York City...
...developing new weapons in space, allegedly designed to make nuclear arms useless, would it not be more sensible to eliminate those arms?" Reagan is caught in a public relations bind: it will be difficult for him to explain convincingly why he is prepared to scuttle a plan to rid the world of nuclear missiles by insisting on the right to build a defensive shield against those missiles. The Soviets are likely to confront Reagan with the somewhat illogical statement he made in his Oct. 31 interview with four Soviet journalists, in which he pledged to seek the elimination of nuclear...
Gorbachev's third stage is the most visionary: starting no later than 1995, all nations would get rid of any remaining nuclear weapons and pledge never to build any more. "Mankind [could] approach the year 2000 under peaceful skies and with peaceful space, without fear of . . . annihilation...
...British, French and West German governments reacted to Gorbachev's proposals about the same way Washington did, expressing both cautious interest and wary skepticism. But one British diplomat ruefully asserted, "It is so simplistic. Good Guy Mikhail offers to get rid of all nuclear missiles while Ron the Hawk lumbers on with his antimissile system. It is going to be a difficult task to explain to public opinion that in the real world it is the small print that really matters, not the grandiose initiatives...
...short run, Chung's obsession with quality can be costly. Last year he delayed the launch of a new Sonata in Korea for two months while engineers cleaned up 50 minor defects. In 2003 he asked senior R&D executive Lee to get rid of an annoying noise that grinding gears were making in the transmissions of Kia Amanti sedans. "I told him that we'd lose two months of sales," Lee recalls. "The chairman said, 'If it's for quality...