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...third school holds that Gorbachev simply means what he says: he wants an arms deal because it would make the world safer. Says one mid-level Soviet official: "He doesn't play by the old rules. The whole strategy of arms negotiations is changing; bargaining chips don't work anymore. Gorbachev really thinks in a new way, and that is not just a slogan." Something like this view is echoed by a less biased observer: George Shultz. Talking to reporters in California about Gorbachev's latest offer, the Secretary mused, "Why are the Soviets doing this? I don't know...
Alfonsin's victory, however, will not quiet the unrest that surges through his armed forces. Argentinian democracy is safer this week than last, yet still not safe. Nonetheless, Alfonsin's achievement may be a hopeful sign for Latin America's attempts to nurture democracy...
...with Physicist Andrei Sakharov, the dissident leader who was allowed to return to Moscow four months ago from a seven-year exile in Gorky. Sakharov emphasized the importance of Gorbachev's social reforms to the prospects for world peace. Said he: "A more democratic, more open country is safer for the world as a whole...
...proposal is the brainchild of L.A. Councilman Robert Farrell, a South Central resident who believes his area is being shortchanged by the I've-got-mine attitude that prevails in safer parts of the city. "The levels of violent crime in South Central Los Angeles are just no longer acceptable," says Farrell. "My car has been broken into, my house has been burglarized, and my wife has been robbed at gunpoint. No other members of the city council would put up with this...
...also planning to sponsor a lecture on "Safer Sex" by television sex-therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer on April 22. "She's clearly a media figure," says Hicks. He said the ABC invited Westheimer "as much because she's very entertaining as educational...