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...superpowers consider talks about controlling weapons in space, the question arises: Which side is ahead? In antisatellite (ASAT) technology, the Soviet Union already has a crude ground-launched system that can destroy satellites orbiting at relatively low altitudes. But the U.S. is on the verge of developing a far superior system. As for the Star Wars idea of using ASAT technology as part of a ballistic-missile defense that would attempt to intercept enemy missiles before they can deliver their nuclear payloads, the U.S. has a solid lead in the infrared guidance that would be used...
...White House was uncertain whether the Soviets would still want to meet on this basis. Maybe. Recent visitors to Moscow have come away with the impression that the Kremlin leaders are genuinely afraid they might lose an arms race in space to superior U.S. technology...
...reason for going to Venice. The other is a one-man show by Howard Hodgkin at the English pavilion. Not since Robert Rauschenberg's appearance at the Biennale 20 years ago has a show by a single painter so hogged the attention of visitors or looked so effortlessly superior to everything else on view by living artists. One enters it with a sense of relief: here the wearisome traits of much contemporary art, its honking rhetoric, its unconvincing urgency, its arid "appropriations" of motifs, are left at the door, and the slow-surfacing complexities of mature, articulate painting greet...
...Disney shares mainly suffered in silence. New York City's Alliance Capital Manage ment lost $1.5 million on its 100,000 shares of Disney. Said Chairman Dave Williams: "We feel like we've had the rug pulled out from under us." Three Disney shareholders filed suit in superior court in Los Angeles asking that Disney's purchase of Steinberg's shares be rescinded and that Disney pay a dividend to all shareholders...
...General Walter LÓpez Reyes, the commander of Honduras' armed forces, attacked the autocratic policies of his predecessor, General Gustavo Alvarez Martínez, who was ousted by the military in March. In a televised speech, LÓpez announced that the 37-member Armed Forces Superior Council was once again the final arbiter of all defense matters. Though Lopez did not criticize the U.S. directly, his talk served notice that Washington could no longer depend on the unquestioning collaboration of the Alvarez years...