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...dialogue is more than two monologues." So said Max Kampelman, chief U.S. negotiator, as a new series of nuclear-arms negotiations between Washington and Moscow opened last month in Geneva. But by the time the first round of discussions broke last week for a recess, scheduled to last until May 30, negotiators had failed to get beyond the double-monologue stage, and the words were old ones at that. Kampelman could claim only that the talks so far had "served a useful purpose in helping to bring about increased understanding of one another's positions." Overall, he declared, "we expected...
That might have been an understatement. By the private estimates of U.S. officials, the latest round in Geneva ranks among the roughest and least productive in the long annals of superpower negotiations. For the Reagan Administration, which gained substantial political luster in pushing for the talks, the opening session was an ominous reminder that an acrimonious and endlessly drawn-out contest of wills in Geneva could tarnish that luster. A prolonged stalemate might also downgrade any U.S.-Soviet summit to an exercise in atmospherics...
Just hours after the Geneva negotiators disbanded, new Soviet Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev all but accused Washington of having entered the new round in bad faith. Gorbachev said the first round "already provides grounds to say that Washington does not seek agreement with the Soviet Union," in part because "it refuses in general to discuss the question of preventing the arms race from spreading to space...
...cascade of medical problems began during surgery, when doctors discovered that his chest cavity was too small to accommodate the grapefruit- size Jarvik-7. DeVries was forced to pare away at the breastbone and twist the heart's chambers around to make it fit. "It was like putting a round peg in a square hole," he said. The struggle to implant the artificial heart probably contributed to Burcham's massive bleeding over the next 24 hours. In all, he lost more than five gallons of blood--four times the total volume in an average-size adult. Only continual transfusions kept...
...magazine's slogan), Forbes made his first stop at the Grand Palace in Bangkok. He brought along an $80,000, 90- ft.-tall, elephant-shaped balloon to entertain the royal family, but high winds curtailed the flight. Forbes is not bothered by little deflations though, or by large round sums. The trip's $250,000 cost will come out of his own pocket, he said, with no tax deduction...