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...Strasbourg: Three Artists' Views: slide program, Rabb Lecture Hall, Boston Public Library...
Robuchon is branching out. It comes as a surprise to see boil-in-bag main courses simmering away in his kitchen. "It will be used by the French railways for their first-class passengers on the Paris-to-Strasbourg route," the chef says. "It cooks for 14 hours, then it can be kept without freezing or preservatives for eight days. Now I test it in large quantities, then it will be packaged in portions." To Joel Robuchon, not even the sky's the limit. "Who knows?" he says wistfully. "May- be someday men will eat my food on the moon...
...ruling by the Strasbourg-based court is not legally enforceable, but British Home Secretary Leon Brittan promised that the immigration law would be changed. The government had argued that the law was useful in controlling the influx of immigrant workers during a period of high domestic unemployment. The court's finding could affect as many as 2,000 couples a year. The women who brought the suit are Arcely Cabales from the Philippines, Sohair Balkandali from Egypt and Nargis Abdulaziz from Malawi. Ironically, they will not be affected: in the four years since their legal action got under way, they...
Ronald Reagan was delivering a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, but his real audience was in Moscow. For some time, Reagan's aides had been concerned that the U.S. was sending confusing signals to the Soviets; Strasbourg seemed a per- fect place to clarify American positions. Speaking on the 40th anniversary of V-E day, Reagan offered olive branches from a mailed fist. He charged that the Soviets were building first- strike nuclear weapons and vowed that the U.S. would "resist attempts by the Soviet Union to use or threaten force against others, or to impose...
After the vexing economic summit in Bonn and the controversial visit to the Bitburg military cemetery, Reagan's second week in Europe was largely upbeat and colorful, with everything from a joyous German pep rally to unruly Spanish protests. The Strasbourg speech put the President back on the diplomatic high ground. The address underscored the theme of resurgent democracy that Reagan repeated throughout his ten-day stay in Europe. "History is on the side of the free," he said, "because freedom is right and because freedom works...