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...year saw a slight improvement in the abysmal relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In a January speech, Reagan sounded a new--for him --conciliatory note. But the Soviet leadership, immobilized by the illness of Yuri Andropov, did not register the change. When Konstantin Chernenko first took over the Soviet leadership, he followed Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko's hard line against the U.S. But in June the Soviets spoke of resuming arms talks in Vienna. Then Gromyko agreed to meet with Reagan in Washington, at the height of the presidential campaign. The Soviets can read public opinion polls...
According to the UHS Environmental Health and Safety Office, 89 bike related injuries were treated during the last school year, a slight increase from 82 the previous year...
...could bemoan the loss of a man who is smart and ambitious enough to be President, a man who could only fall prey to his slight stature, his high-pitched voice, and a deadpan wit that would make him the hit of a Harvard party but an ass in Austin...
...which Michael Moriarty portrays the monk. Last June PBS televised a biography, and the film is still enjoying brisk sales and rentals. The show's producers have now recycled 20 of their interviews as Merton by Those Who Knew Him Best (Harper & Row; 191 pages; $12.95), a slight but engaging book...
...post-Solitude stories in this volume exhibit a slight decline in energy and enthusiasm, as if the writer now feels cramped by a form that he had enjoyed experimenting with earlier. Perhaps, as the evidence of the past twelve years suggests, he has gone over entirely to the writing of novels. But Garcia Márquez, at 56, is still vigorous and inventive enough to move wherever his talent dictates. It is good to have the Collected Stories and permissible to hope that they will not be the end of the tales...