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...Stockholm, Shultz found his Soviet counterpart in such profoundly bearish spirits that he decided against bringing up an exploratory arms-talks proposal, which he had been authorized to present only after considerable infighting within the Administration. A display of Grim Grom behavior at the White House would almost certainly strengthen the hand of the Pentagon hard-liners in a second Reagan Administration...
When the bomb went off in East Beirut, workmen were preparing to install a steel gate near the dragon's teeth that would strengthen security by giving guards a little more time in which to deal with a possible emergency. The white-painted gate was still lying on the sidewalk, waiting to be put into place, and the cement in which the gateposts were set was still wet. In the aftermath of the tragedy, a Lebanese guard said that he thought the dragon's teeth had been placed too far apart to force traffic to a crawl. Countering...
...University policy toward companies that do business in South Africa, the ACSR voted 6-5 with one abstention to recommend that Harvard sell all the stock it holds in companies that do any fraction of their work in South Africa. Failing unilateral divestiture, the ACSR urged the Corporation to strengthen its advocacy of the so-called Sullivan principles and make corporate adoption of the Tutu Resolutions prerequisites for continued University investment...
Critics of Mrs. Gandhi, noting that she must call national elections by next January, suspect that Rama Rao's removal is part of a precampaign maneuver to strengthen the Prime Minister's hand in the six of India's 22 states that Congress (I) did not control. Only six weeks before Rama Rao's fall in Andhra Pradesh, Gandhi loyalists had similarly ousted the chief minister of the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir. The furor over Rama Rao's removal has probably bought time for the chief ministers of the other four states-Karnataka...
...already commands 28% of the personal computer market, and industry watchers believe the new products will strengthen its dominance. Says Bruce Nollenberger, first vice president of Sutro & Co., a San Francisco brokerage house: "IBM is flexing its muscles, and the computer world is taking notice...