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...today." According to the report, Moscow violated the 1972 Anti-Ballistic Missile treaty by building a huge radar system in central Siberia, and the 1979 SALT accords limiting each side to one new ICBM by testing and deploying the SS-25 mobile missile. The Soviets argue that the radar station will be used for tracking satellites, not enemy missiles, and that the SS-25 is merely a modernized version of the old SS-12. Pentagon hardliners insist that the scope of Soviet cheating is greater than most other experts con tend; on-site inspection may be the only way finally...
Hours after the assaults, a man speaking in Arabic-accented Spanish called a radio station in Málaga, Spain, and claimed that both attacks had been carried out by the "Abu Nidal organization." Officials in Italy, Austria, Israel and the U.S. all took the claim seriously. Abu Nidal is the code name used by Sabry Khalil Bana, 45, who quit Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization in 1973, contending that Arafat had softened his opposition to Israel. Abu Nidal, in turn, was condemned to death by the P.L.O. Interviewed by Arab reporters recently in Libya, where he reportedly established...
...make amends, former Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Estimé traveled to Washington last month to meet with State Department officials. The Duvalier government promptly announced that it was undertaking an investigation of the Gonaďves school principal's death and gave Radio Soleil permission to begin broadcasting again. The station is expected to be back on the air this week...
...side of the room, his windows overlook an arena-size lobby where thousands of passengers wait, eat, sleep and often grumble. Windows on the opposite wall face the runways, where People's jets streak skyward toward Los Angeles, London and 47 other destinations. Burr's office is bus-station Spartan, like his airline. In the place where a conventional executive's couch would sit, he has a row of three first-class seats from...
...elderly loyalists and some young art historians with a revisionist glint in their eyes. He had been dropped from the list, an act comparable to (though, happily, not as final as) the dismantling of that masterpiece of New York public architecture, McKim, Mead and White's Pennsylvania Station. However, work did survive, though unconsulted. Few visits were paid to his Shaw monument on Boston Common, the most intensely felt image of military commemoration ever made by an American; few Manhattanites bestowed more than a glance at his monuments to Admiral Farragut and General Sherman. Curators who, given the ticket, would...