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...addition, a plan to scrap the CRR entirely and create a new student-faculty body is currently being considered by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' steering committee. A final version of this plan should be released within a few weeks...
...abandon its nuclear shield over Western Europe, despite Reagan's controversial proposal in Reykjavik to eliminate all ballistic missiles over a ten-year period. Reiterating his statement of last month, he said at the annual meeting of NATO foreign ministers in Brussels that even if agreement were reached to scrap most nuclear missiles "a small residual ballistic-missile force" would remain as "insurance" to guard against Soviet cheating. Shultz was also careful to discourage speculation that a politically weakened President might be hustled into a disadvantageous deal with the Soviets. Said he: "If they think there is an opening, they...
...control treaty allows the U.S. a total of 1,320 strategic nuclear delivery systems. If the number of bombers carrying cruises passes 130, the U.S. is obliged to make a corresponding reduction in another area of its nuclear arsenal. The White House decision to field the bomber and not scrap a missile-carrying Poseidon submarine to keep within SALT II bounds amounted to the first acknowledged violation of a major arms accord by a superpower...
...controversy to rest. "Most of this is a tempest in a teapot, because our formal position is in writing and now tabled in Geneva," said a senior White House official. The U.S. proposal has two parts: start by eliminating half of all strategic warheads and delivery vehicles; scrap all ballistic missiles by 1996. The firmness of Soviet intentions to link any agreement to restrictions on SDI should become clearer this week, when Secretary of State George Shultz meets in Vienna with Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze...
...Enchanter is hardly the "dead scrap" that Nabokov called it when he first wrote it in Paris. The short novel has the appeal of the author's distinct style. It demonstrates his method of patterning fiction which, in Nabokov's words, combines "the play of shadow and light on a live body, the harmony of trifles assembled...in a unique and inimitable...