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That question was very much on Andrei Gromyko's mind in Geneva last week. George Shultz, who prides himself on being a straight talker, was in the awkward position of having to hedge and dodge. A Soviet official said after the meeting, "Whenever our side tried to learn about the specifics of the American space-arms program, Mr. Shultz tried to answer us with vague generalities and rather unhelpful lectures...
Finally, we must recognize in Lasch that terrifying phenomenon, the after-dinner monomaniac--a specimen who could, by stricter regulation of dangerous technology, be kept from the typewriter entirely. He is the sort of talker, so family in the horror-pitted fields of family life, on whom one vomited at three years, old, listened to at seven, and ignored at ten. Does Lasch find it easy to lead a psychologically sound and theoretically consistent life? Or has he found, on the contrary, that humility, intellectual generosity, and a too-fitful wisdom keep breaking...
...killing, it was an acknowledgment of the hostility his combative style had provoked among his estimated 200,000 listeners. So many officers were needed, said one, partly because Berg's audience provided so many potential suspects. Threats and sometimes violence are indeed an occupational hazard. Ex-Washington Radio Talker Gary D. Gilbert has been assaulted in a restaurant by an angry listener and once had a bomb planted in his car. San Diego radio station KSDO has assigned round-the-clock guards for Dave Dawson, its controversial though less brutal host...
Japan's No. 1 attraction is a nonstop mover and talker...
...course, the attitude that will count will not be that of the U.N. delegates but the one adopted by the Soviet Union. Presidential aides dismiss any thought that the harsh tone of Reagan's U.N. speech would sour the negotiating atmosphere. Indeed, Reagan was not the only tough talker last week. In his speech to the U.N., Gromyko accused the U.S. of showing a "militaristic frenzy" in its arms buildup and beaming this message to the world: "If you want peace, then it's full steam ahead for war." But when Gromyko met Secretary of State Alexander Haig...