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Hopes of reducing the huge U.S. grain stocks, which may reach 211 million metric tons this year, withered last week when the Soviet Union violated a long-term agreement and failed to buy the 3.85 million tons of U.S. wheat remaining in this year's quota. In an effort to clinch the deal by last Tuesday's deadline, the Reagan Administration had agreed in August to subsidize the wheat, but it was not enough to keep the Soviets from going to competing suppliers. Two days after letting the U.S. deal lapse, Moscow signed a five-year pact...
...proposed compromise that will reduce INF arsenals to "token" forces of 100 warheads each. Such an agreement could provide a centerpiece for a full-fledged summit in the U.S. if Reagan and Gorbachev can iron out the remaining issues this weekend. Among them: the Soviets want only a short-term agreement in order to avoid being locked into a deal if modernization of the French and British independent arsenals commences in the next decade; the Americans want strict verification procedures, as well as limits on the mobile SS-20s that the Soviets have deployed in Asia...
Personal Background: On a one-pageresume you have had to leave out a great deal.This section maybe used to mention informationthat you consider important such as: "Have workedevery term to help pay college expenses deliveringnewspapers, washing dishes, bartending, driving ashuttle bus." "Lived in a small town in Ohio untilI came to Harvard." "Born and grew up in New YorkCity." (Where you spent your youth may be animportant message to the employer.) "Playedvarsity lacrosse and intramural basketball...
...October 9, "Boyd's Eye View" cartoon depicts John Harvard stuck to a tar-baby labeled "South Africa." A tar baby is a racist symbol out of Southern slave-culture as well as an insulting term for a Black person. Its use in the cartoon is both inappropriate and offensive, and I hope that The Crimson will print an apology. Yongjin...
Wacker's resignation is in keeping with a retire-at-65 policy that was in force when he first joined the health service, he said. However that policy was changed during his term...