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...secret decisions that aim to give something to everyone. But the document 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...
Never one to decide such matters once and for all, Reagan left his options open. He indicated that the U.S. might scrap SALT II if the Soviets did not clean up their act, and he said nothing about what he will do in December, when modernized B-52s are to be fitted with new cruise missiles that would again push the U.S. past the treaty's limits...
...Swiss Open Up After the E.U. constitution was rejected by the French and Dutch, and another bitter scrap broke out over the E.U. budget, Brussels won a quiet sign of support last week from an unlikely corner. In a referendum, 55% of Swiss voters approved joining the E.U.-run Schengen area, which lifts internal border checks. Integration doesn't come easy to the Swiss. Voters declined membership of the European Economic Area, a staging post to full E.U. membership, in 1992; a poll in 2001 shelved the possibility of membership talks even though around two-thirds of the country...
...have become strangers. But Liman's MacGyver-like improvisational style can come at a price. "It was a very hard shoot," he admits. "I don't necessarily go into a movie with the characters figured out." He built an entire snow-covered mountain on a Fox sound stage, then scrapped it when he decided the mountain scene was all wrong for Mr. Smith's personality. He also had to scrap the two main villains and held two reshoots after the movie wrapped. "I'm extremely tenacious," Liman says. "The movie becomes the most important thing in the world...
...your bets. - By Adam Smith Counting The Hours British workers on average put in 217 hours per year more than the Germans, 220 more than the French and 319 more than the Dutch, but their heavy workload may be about to lighten. Last week the European Parliament voted to scrap a British exemption to E.U. rules that limit the workweek to 48 hours. Employers complained that such restrictions could undermine the British economy's strength. "Here we are with the most successful economy in Europe, we've got the most flexible labor market, people earn good money - and Brussels...