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...President's triumph came not a minute too soon. The crucial NATO gathering demanded more from the U.S. than Bush's hypercautious hedging, ready or not. Ever since Gorbachev promised last December to slash Soviet forces in Europe, he had been bombarding an awed Europe with proposal after proposal to refashion the Continent's military balance, his way, while the U.S. stood idly by. And for the past two months, the U.S. and Britain had brawled with West Germany over whether and when to modernize NATO's few remaining short-range nuclear missiles in West Germany or trade them away...
...conventional-arms reductions that Gorbachev proposed are striking enough: hundreds of thousands of troops on each side and, by Moscow's arithmetic -- which does not come close to agreeing with NATO figures -- slashes of about two-thirds in the number of Warsaw Pact tanks, armored vehicles and artillery pieces. After the reductions, which would be much heavier on the Soviet than the U.S. side, NATO and Warsaw Pact troops and weaponry would supposedly be equalized by 1996-97 at a level a bit below that now fielded by NATO. Still, Gorbachev essentially only filled in the details on a proposal...
...timers, a slash across a page can be a pensioner's windfall. "In my day, if you turned down an autograph," Bob Feller says, "the kids would spray ink all over you." These days he gets $7. "Why shouldn't I sell my signature? If I'm on the street or at the ballpark and someone asks for an autograph, no problem. But with these shows, there's money to be made. That's where I charge...
...depressed earnings were just one sign of Wall Street's myriad woes. Drexel Burnham Lambert, the junk-bond pioneer, said last week it plans to sell its retail brokerage business, which trades for small investors, and concentrate on large institutional clients. That move and cutbacks in other divisions will slash Drexel's payroll of 9,000 employees by about one-third. In a candid statement, Drexel said "adverse publicity" about its legal problems had helped drive it from the retail market. Earlier this month the company settled a Securities and Exchange Commission suit by agreeing to fire its indicted junk...
Kilroy's captors brought bread and water, assuring him there was no danger. But twelve hours later he was abruptly led outside and executed with a machete slash to the back of his neck. The man who wielded the weapon, according to Mexican police, was the cult's ringleader, Adolfo de Jesus Constanzo, 26, a lanky, red-haired Cuban American who grew up in Miami. Constanzo, still being sought at week's end, inspired such fervent loyalty among his followers that he was known as El Padrino, the Godfather...