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...Reagan is feeling politically vulnerable on foreign policy issues-he may decide to retreat from his bold but one-sided opening proposal and settle for a limited, interim agreement. That way, he could claim to have accomplished something more in strategic arms control than just to have made a stubborn and unsuccessful try. -By Strobe Talbott
...citizens. Indeed, the idea of an ERA is hardly new. It was proposed in 1923 by Feminist Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman's Party, and that same year was introduced in Congress, where it languished for decades. The modern campaign began in 1967, when a stubborn Paul, then 82, persuaded the National Organization for Women to endorse the amendment. By 1972, partly because of the momentum of the civil rights and antiwar movements and partly because of adroit political maneuvering, particularly by Martha Griffiths, then a Democratic Congresswoman from Michigan, the ERA had been passed by Congress...
Virtually forgotten amid the headlines from the Middle East and South Atlantic is a stubborn conflict in Afghanistan, where determined guerrillas continue to resist a 100,000-strong Soviet occupation force. Last month, in the largest operation since their December 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, the Soviets tried to root out the well-disciplined mujahedin of the lush Panjshir Valley, north of Kabul. TIME's William Dowell spent 22 days, disguised in a native tunic and baggy pantaloons, trekking over 16,000-ft. passes with a guerrilla caravan in order to witness the combat. Dowell's report...
...singer and two guitarists belonged to a tiny circle of stubborn white blues players headed by Alexis Komer, himself a guitarist and leader of band called Blues Incorporated. Komer, though a talented musician, was destined to leave his mark as a matchmaker, not a performer. By letting punks like Jagger, Richards and Jones sit in with Blues Inc., he gave them an opportunity to prove they were as good as they said they were...
There are no big meanings here; no big laughs, for that matter, either. Instead, there is a mild, but admirably stubborn singularity. Gregory's Girl does not offer anything as thick as slice life, just slivers of it, cut thin as smoked Scotch salmon. And tasting just as sweet . - By Richard Schickel