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...Disputes over East-West relations have provoked a divisive crisis within the Western alliance. Washington's attempt to impose sanctions on firms supplying equipment for the natural gas pipeline the Soviets are building from Siberia to Western Europe threatened to spoil Shultz's dinner with French Foreign Minister Claude Cheysson. "Obviously they were not going to sort it out over pate," said one U.S. official. So Shultz shifted the discussions to the broader terrain of East-West economic relations and sounded out Cheysson on what Western strategy ought to be. Said a Shultz aide: "He is taking...
Strauss insists that he is not trying to spoil Kohl's chances. His motive, instead, is to gain as much clout as possible within the new coalition at the expense of Genscher's Free Democrats. After arriving in Bonn last week, Strauss declared: "It is high time that the F.D.P. learned moderation and modesty from its decline." With opinion polls showing that 52.7% of West German voters now support the Christian Democrats, Strauss believes the time is ripe to form a government without the F.D.P. He also has his eye on the posts of Vice Chancellor and Foreign...
...snowed-in months there is no other place to focus on. Says Cooper-Hewitt Curator of Decorative Arts David Revere McFadden, who organized the show: "Whether they are made by hand or machine, Scandinavia's virtuoso designs are both art and craft. Distinction between the two would merely spoil our joy of appreciating them...
...Boone Pickens was not about to let a little ole economic adversity spoil his plans. A former wildcatter who parlayed a $2,500 grubstake into a worldwide company with holdings stretching at times from Canada to the North Sea, Pickens had been gunning for Cities Service since 1979. His interest was sparked by the company's ownership of upwards of 10.6 million undeveloped acres of U.S. land containing an estimated 287 million bbl. of proven oil reserves as well as 2.7 trillion cu. ft. of natural...
...tell more of the plot would be to spoil one of the film's pleasures, its gratification of the child's delight in wondering "What comes next, Daddy?" It is enough to say that E.T. stands securely in the company of some classic children's stories, from Peter Pan to The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. With the crucial help of Screenwriter Melissa Mathison, who was present every day on the set, Spielberg has infused comic and dramatic tension into a story in which, one comes to realize, there are no villains. Everyone is nice, and the conflict...