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...adore it in Canada. Here we are hunkered down mindlessly in the snow, smack in the middle of the shortest possible overland missile, or, if you like, infantry route between those legendary, loving pals the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 20th century, promised to us by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1904, is almost over, and Canada, so far as pennant-contending nations go, is still fumbling through spring training. Unemployment is running at 11%. Our dollar is teetering at 760 (U.S.). But what had surfaced as one of the most contentious election issues in the first month...
...Surfaces can be lifted or lowered, tilted or joined every which way; adjustable video supports, telephone holders, In and Out baskets, bookshelves, copyholders and other accessories can be readily attached. Says Diffrient: "We set out to design an office furniture system that fits everyone who uses it-from the shortest woman to the tallest man-like their clothes or shoes...
...final Geneva meeting, held the day after the Bundestag vote, was the shortest ever. As host, Nitze invited Kvitsinsky to make an opening statement. Kvitsinsky instead read his closing remarks. Nitze responded by declaring that the U.S. "profoundly regrets" the Soviet discontinuance of the talks, a decision that he said was "as unjustified as it is unfortunate." He reminded the Soviets that during the two years of talks, the U.S.S.R. had increased its force of SS-20 missiles in Europe and Asia from some 140 to roughly 360. The U.S., said Nitze, "throughout this period has continued negotiating." As farewell...
...Tuesday came a surprise. During a 35-minute session, by far the shortest of the two years of talking, Chief Soviet Delegate Kvitsinsky agreed to hold another session at the neobaroque Soviet mission two days later. Then he offered what amounted to a revision of Andropov's Oct. 26 ultimatum. According to Kvitsinsky, the threatened "consequences" of NATO missile deployment would occur with the arrival "on the continent of Europe" of "short-flight-time" systems on the periphery of the Soviet Union. His statement implied that collapse of the talks would occur only after West Germany had acquired...
...must confess, the production has some of the concentrated impact of my original tale of Carmen. You know, the qualities that Nietzsche, just the other day, was saying you had drawn from me-"the logic in passion, the shortest line, the harsh necessity...