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There were other signs of official preoccupation with AIDS. The threat of the disease is slated to come up when Reagan and six other leaders of major industrial democracies* meet at the economic summit in Venice this week. That the battle against AIDS will require international cooperation was a point repeatedly made by top AIDS researchers at the Washington conference. Speaker after speaker emphasized the lengthening reach of the AIDS virus around the globe -- and the potential magnitude of the problem for policymakers. Said U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Lowell T. Harmison: "We are at war with a global...
...policies, but they remain at the beck and call of U.S. military planners. U.S. pressure to "share" SDI technology has left many European leaders, who remember the Maginot Line, frustrated at the extravagence and rigidity of American planners. At the same time, Reagan's wild unilateralism at the Reykjavik summit has raised fears that defense plans for Europe are too little dependent on European consent--and too much on American caprice...
Despite a grand Venetian setting, this year's summit agenda calls for more work and less public ceremony for the participants. President Reagan will travel every morning by covered motor launch across the Venetian lagoon from the plush Hotel Cipriani, where he will stay, to the tiny Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore, situated directly across from the famous Piazza San Marco. The formal summit talks will take place in the bay-windowed, dark-paneled library of a 17th century Benedictine monastery on the miniature island. Security will be so tight that the traditional photograph of the summit leaders will...
Sure enough, what began as a zany stunt swiftly escalated into a major crisis for the Soviet military command. Communist Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev, who returned to Moscow on Friday from East Berlin, where he and Defense Minister Sergei Sokolov had been attending a Warsaw Pact summit, acted decisively. The next day Gorbachev convened an emergency meeting of the Politburo in the Kremlin. After that session, the Politburo fired Sokolov, 75, and Marshal of Aviation Alexander Koldunov, 63, who headed the nation's air- defense system. Sokolov was replaced as the top Soviet military leader by General of the Army...
Troubled economic waters threaten the Venice summit. -- Has James Baker' s star waned? -- A new debt boom in home- equity loans...