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...Americans will probably then see if they can tempt the Soviets into deferring the disagreement over Star Wars and cutting a deal on offensive weapons alone. The Soviets have softened their line on some other issues in order to return to the Geneva talks, but the chances are next to nil that they will give up their insistence on linkage between any agreement on offensive weapons and parallel progress in the talks on defense. It was at Soviet insistence that the communique released by Shultz and Gromyko after their January meeting in Geneva said, "The sides agree that the subject...
Opposing coaches have started to send their forward aggressively into the crease to tempt the ECAC's Billy Smith into drawing a slashing penalty...
...experience in gentle but nonsoporific tranquillity. The time is 1963, and Jeffrey Willis (Matt Dillon) is a poor Brooklyn boy working for the summer at an upper-middle-class Long Island beach club. There he meets a car dealer (Richard Crenna), slightly shady and blatantly materialistic, who tries to tempt him away from the good values of his decent dad (Hector Elizondo), a plumber whose trade may be humble but whose spirit is not. There is originality and poignancy in Neal Marshall's story about competing father figures, and Garry Marshall's direction is unforced but never lackadaisical...
...After all, the 400-sq.-mi. enclave boasts exports greater than those of the entire People's Republic and supplies China with some 40% of its foreign exchange. Most important, perhaps, Peking hoped that by transforming Hong Kong into a semiautonomous special administrative zone without fuss, it could tempt Taiwan to enter into a similar arrangement...
...tempt nor threaten a pre-emptive attack. Thus, while START was in tended to enhance the case for the MX by increasing the ratio of warheads to launchers and by putting a premium on large MlRVed missiles, it inadvertently increased opposition to the big missile in Congress and instead spurred development of the "Midgetman": an entirely new ICBM, a small, single-warhead alternative to the large MlRVed...