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Continuing the diplomatic tit-for-tat, the State Department announced that the U.S. last month had expelled two Soviet diplomats posted in Washington. Assistant Air Attaché Yuri Leonov was caught with a briefcase that included a classified document. Trade Attaché Anatoly Skripko was arrested in the act of handing over money for classified documents. Their expulsions were not publicized at the time because the U.S. was then hoping to nurture warming relations with the U.S.S.R...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diplomacy: Salvaging the Remains | 9/26/1983 | See Source »

...issue of agricultural quotas. The U.S. trade representative's office announced last week that it was complaining to GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade) in Geneva about Tokyo's excessive import restrictions on U.S. agriculture. That may have moved Uno into a kind of tit for tat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Uno's Surprise | 7/11/1983 | See Source »

Ordinarily, faced with the expulsion of three officials, the U.S. would have retaliated tit for tat, expelling three diplomats of the offending country. Instead, 21 officials stationed in the New York, Miami, New Orleans, Houston, Los Angeles and San Francisco consulates of Nicaragua were ordered out and their offices shut. Both consul generals in California, for instance, had lived in the U.S. since 1961, and left behind spouses who are U.S. citizens. New Orleans Consul General Augustin Alfaro, U.S.-educated and a resident of the city for ten years, decided to stay: just before the Administration's departure deadline...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Overt Actions, Covert Worries | 6/20/1983 | See Source »

...specifically refers to a recent batch of widely heralded tenure appointments tat has given Harvard for the first time an important "Critical Mass" of theorists in the field. These theorists include professors of Computer Science Michael A. Rabin, Leslie G. Valiant, and Lewis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Picks Up Pace In Computer Sciences | 3/2/1983 | See Source »

...Dromio of Syracuse (Thomas Derrah) and Dromio of Ephesus (Stephen Rowe). The Antipholi and Dromios were separated in s shipwreck at a very young age, and now Antipholus of Ephesus, having sought his lost lost twin for seven years, finds himself in the hostile city of Syracuse, not knowing tat this brother lives there. Naturally, all sense of identity is passed through the proverbial mix master of comedy, as Antipholus's wife Adriana (Susan Larson) switches husbands, the husbands switch servants, the servants switch wives, no one knows what anyone is talking about, and so forth until the happy ending...

Author: By Jean CHRISTOPHE Castelli, | Title: Live From Syracuse | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

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