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...Monday morning a resolute President strode to the podium and unveiled a bold plan for a "revolutionary" conventional-arms-reduction agreement. He put forward, with full alliance backing, an imaginative, sweeping proposal to speed up the talks to achieve deep cuts in troops, tanks, artillery and aircraft in Europe. The plan not only met Gorbachev's initiatives but topped them by calling for cutbacks that would erase the East bloc's numerical advantage while slashing the U.S. presence on European soil, all within three years...
...suspicion that the Congress would turn into a totally rubber-stamp legislature, however, was dispelled minutes into the opening session, when a Latvian delegate strode uninvited to the podium. "I ask you to honor the memory of those who died in Tbilisi," urged the gray-bearded man, referring to the 20 demonstrators killed in the Georgian capital in April, some reportedly with poison gas, during clashes with army troops. That request, which prompted the delegates to rise for a moment of silence, was not merely unrehearsed, it was an explicit act of defiance that went against Gorbachev's wish that...
...world is misbehaving again, and George Bush's puppy presidency, like Jerry Ford's English-muffin phase, has passed from American screens. Once again, as so often before, troops moved through the night; a defiant dictatorship strode the dark streets of a tiny, helpless nation; NATO complained and quibbled; the Soviets unexpectedly moved a bishop in the great chess game of power. The convicted ghost of Ollie North haunted Pennsylvania Avenue, and House Speaker Jim Wright -- a linchpin in this Government, like him or not -- teetered. The weary old terrestrial sphere was either too hot or too cold and capricious...
...Crimson Captain Dan McConaghy for the bad news first. In the opener, with two outs in the bottom of the seventh and the Eagles ahead, 5-3, the Harvard centerfielder strode to the plate, representing the tying run. He struck out on a Doug MacNeil breaking ball, stranding Pat Sullivan on second base to end the game...
...audience that gathered last week for an evening with Nureyev caught a glimpse of the answer. On-screen, the dancer leaped and pirouetted in a dazzling 20-minute film review of his career. But the best was yet to come. When the lights went up, Nureyev strode onstage for a one-hour interview with Brown. The ebullient dancer talked candidly about his theatrical life, from his youth in the Soviet Union to his present role as artistic director of the Paris Opera Ballet. While performances like that are hard acts to follow, TIME and N.Y.U. are already plotting a regular...