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HOSPITALIZED. Ezra Taft Benson, 86, politically conservative Mormon leader and former Secretary of Agriculture (1953-60) who last November became president of the 5.8 million-member Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; for evaluation; in Salt Lake City...
Ronald Reagan came into office proclaiming that his goal would be significant reductions rather than merely limits on nuclear weapons, as his predecessors had attempted through the SALT process. (Carter had proposed the same idea in 1977, but backed away when the Soviets balked.) Moscow walked out on the negotiations in late 1983 in reaction to the U.S. deployment of intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Western Europe, but spurred by the desire to prevent Reagan from proceeding with his Strategic Defense Initiative, it returned to Geneva early last year to open a new round of negotiations...
...Ellison Onizuka and Judith Resnik were seated, was still partly intact. The Navy's team of 40-odd divers managed to bring to the surface the remains of the crew members. The divers also recovered the shuttle's four flight recorders, which might, despite a six-week soak in salt water, provide valuable data about the disaster. Although NASA had not announced it, within a few days of the crash U.S. Coast Guard searchers recovered three battered flight helmets and a plastic package containing materials McAuliffe had planned to use to teach schoolchildren "lessons from space...
NATION: Are America's supercarriers the weapon of the future or a throwback? 14 In a time of random violence and global tension, the U.S. projects power overseas with a fleet of formidable but vulnerable flattops. Reagan scraps two submarines to comply with SALT II, while a new mobile missile is studied. The furor intensifies over Michael Deaver's influence peddling. Nevada Senator and Reagan Pal Paul Laxalt cautiously eyes the presidency...
...drafted after an intense National Security Council meeting last week had elements to placate all sides of the Administration's fractious arms-negotiating team. In a significant victory for Secretary of State George Shultz, Reagan decided to scrap two American submarines to continue--for now--compliance with the unratified SALT II treaty. Yet to please Pentagon hard-liners, he set the stage for "proportionate responses" to alleged Soviet violations. Work will be accelerated on the small single-warhead mobile missile known as the Midgetman and on an advanced radar-evading cruise missile. He proposed a study of yet another...