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State Department moderates are advocating a giant swap with the Soviets. They would use Star Wars as a bargaining chip, offering to shelve it in return for deep cuts in the Soviets' heavy land-based missiles. They maintain that the U.S. cannot hope to build a defense that would knock out every Soviet missile before it struck the U.S. The Soviets, they fear, would simply rush to build more and more sophisticated missiles to saturate U.S. defenses, pushing the arms race into a volatile new phase. For the moment, the superpowers have informally agreed to practice "interim restraint" while groping...
...Campbell swap was unexpected because, even though the 1977 Heisman Trophy winner our of Texas had managed only 278 yards on 96 carries in six straight losses, he represented one of the Oilers' few offensive threats. And the Saints already owned several solid runners, led by George Rogers...
Peres was speaking to the Reagan Administration as much as to the Israeli citizen. The Prime Minister-accompanied by Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir, the Likud leader who under the terms of the coalition agreement will swap jobs with Peres after 25 months-is scheduled to meet with Reagan in Washington on Oct. 9. Anticipating that the election-year U.S. Congress will approve a record $2.6 billion in economic and military aid to Israel for fiscal 1985, which starts Oct. 1, Israeli officials will ask that Washington give them $1.2 billion of that amount immediately to meet interest payments...
...many people still have a stake in its revival: a Watergate-starved generation of investigative reporters who must make do with imitation enemies lists (USIA), imitation graft (Japanese watches) and now imitation laundering (the Centre Street swap); a public so hungry it will accept fiction, if fact is in short supply (Washington politics has been honored with its own seamy TV soap opera); and some vengeful pols, mostly Republicans who suffered for years through the aftermath of Watergate and delight in the chance to do a little Woodward-Bernsteining themselves, now that they smell a smoking Democratic...
...profusion of free software is an outgrowth of the camaraderie that developed in the mid-'70s, when personal computers were new and commercial software was scarce. Pioneer users, sharing their breakthroughs and building on one an other's work, traded programs much as Little Leaguers swap baseball cards. One of the most popular titles was MODEM, a 1977 program that allowed personal-computer owners to send programming instructions to one another by telephone. Its author, IBM Engineer Ward Christensen, takes pride in never having profited from his labor of love. Says he: "People sometimes send me money...