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...current round of SALT negotiations has taken place in an atmosphere of increasing cordiality between the two superpowers. Administration analysts believe that an important policy decision was made in the Kremlin last fall to ease the hard line that it had been following ever since the new President Carter began talking of human rights. The thaw was set back by Washington's sudden normalization of ties with Peking, but the Soviets apparently have recovered from that shock and now seem determined to improve relations with the U.S. The payoff expected by the Soviets is Senate ratification of SALT...
After Moscow agreed to trade five dissidents for two KGB spies in U.S. hands, it was the Americans who recommended that the actual swap be quiet and informal. Following a moderate round of embracing and speechmaking, the dissidents went on their separate ways last week without the U.S. Government making much of a fuss over them. Alexander Ginzburg and Georgi Vins moved temporarily to Vermont, Ginzburg to the baronially fenced estate of exiled Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn in Cavendish and Vins to the home of Olin Robison, a fellow Baptist minister and president of Middlebury College. Mark Dymshits and Eduard Kuznetsov...
...Round one--the pies simply graze the ankles of the two participants. The crowd groans in obvious dismay. The second about is more satisfying, with pies be-purpling the chemises of both Miss Markof-Belaeff and Mr. Holmes. However, round three takes the cake (so to speak), when both participants approach within a foot of each other and boldly smush a pie in the other's face...
...Crimson's best individual finisher was co-captain Jim Dales, who pieced together consecutive sub-80 rounds (78, 79) for a total of 157. Chip Raffi finished a shot back of Dales with 158. Raffi had the lowest round of any Harvard player when he uncorked a 77 on Friday after opening with an 81. Glenn Alexander, who played at number one for the linksters and who usually turns out sub-80 rounds with assembly-line regularity, carded rounds...
...finals Sunday, Pompan's superior all-round game led him past Goldberg's big serve and volley, 6-4, 6-3. On a slow surface that favored him, the Crimson ace hit hard ground strokes and passing shots to break Goldberg's serve once in each...