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Mikhail Gorbachev may finally get his way. Two months ago, the Soviet leader said he wanted to begin withdrawing the 115,000 Soviet troops mired in Afghanistan by May 15, but deadlocked negotiations in Geneva over the precise terms of the pullout cast doubt on his schedule. The snag was caused by Washington's insistence that the U.S. could arm Afghanistan resistance fighters as long as Moscow continued to provide military help to Kabul's Communist regime...
...March 15 target date for an agreement on a Soviet pullout from Afghanistan came and went last week without an accord. The main snag in the negotiations between the Afghan government and Pakistan, which represents the U.S.-backed mujahedin rebels, was the so-called symmetry issue, with Washington demanding that the Soviets cut off all military aid to the Afghan government at the same time that the U.S. ends arms deliveries to the rebels. The issue may be resolved this week when Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze meet in Washington...
...both Cambridge and Harvard are on the watch for slip-ups, Guth says. "I just paid off $120 to the City of Cambridge for mostly meter violations," he says. "They always snag you somehow...
When Clarkson and St. Lawrence met in the first-ever ECAC Championship game in 1962, the Saints defeated the Golden Knights, 5-2, to snag the league's inaugural crown...
Alex Konolvachik rebounded from a quarterfinal pin to snag a fifth-place finish in the 190-lb. class. Konovalchik rose up through the loser's bracket in the double elimination tournament...