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When news of the tentative decision leaked last month, it seemed a great victory for the State Department and arms-control advocates. To stay within the missile limits set by the unratified SALT II accord, President Reagan had agreed to dismantle two aging Poseidon submarines when a new Trident sub is launched this month. The complex compromise, reached at a secret National Security Council meeting, seemed to have something for each of the warring factions in the Administration: though it preserved SALT II for the moment, it also accelerated work on the small mobile missile known as the Midgetman...
...perfect thing to see while talking to a friend you haven't seen since you last sat down before your Macintosh or last entered Lamont, because even if you miss a minute or two, it doesn't matter. There's no plot--there is merely a series of sub-plots that lampoon Medieval values with some interesting references to modern times...
...uses, could save as much as $23 billion on crude this year, which will help offset the loss of export business it has suffered because of the rapid appreciation of the yen. Oil-using nations that are less well off will benefit too. In sub-Saharan Africa, lower expenses for transportation and farming could start to raise living standards after many years of decline. Some countries with state-owned oil companies, notably India and Pakistan, have so far refused to pass savings along to consumers, deciding instead to spend the money on government programs. That position has riled consumers...
...most of his works, Stoppard creates a confusion of plots and sub-plots, plays within plays, an inversion of theater and reality. Art imitates life and life imitates...
Sheehan, a legitimate sub-four-minute miler, earned All-America honors with a second place finish in the mile at the NCAA championships earlier this month. He was MVP of 1985 Indoor Heps, and had two first-place and one second-place finish in the '86 Indoors...