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Officially the Administration appeared willing to accept Andropov's overtures as a tentative thaw in East-West tensions. If Moscow was ready "to take concrete steps" to improve relations, said State Department Spokesman Alan Romberg, it would find "a ready partner" in the Reagan Administration...
...warming of the international climate touched off a thaw inside the U.S.S.R. Partly because he had attended his first summit meeting with Western leaders the year before in Geneva, Khrushchev felt able to launch his destalinization campaign and begin releasing prisoners from the Gulag Archipelago in 1956. This time American diplomacy had helped to improve conditions within the Soviet Union. But in the absence of clear, consistent ideas about how the Soviet system really works, American efforts to make that system more compatible with U.S. interests and values have been doomed to repeat old errors and commit new ones...
...Secretary of State's meeting with MacEachen and a subsequent talk with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau were signs of a small thaw in a U.S.-Canadian relationship that has grown increasingly frosty. Washington is concerned by what it sees as the nationalistic and discriminatory investment policies of Trudeau's Liberal government. Those worries have been expressed vocally in the U.S. Congress. Last week Congressman John Dingell, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, attacked Canada for "unfair and confiscatory policies in the energy and investment areas." According to a report issued by the subcommittee...
...would flood northern agricultural lands, temporarily halt river traffic and, by denying salmon and other river-breeding species their fresh-water spawning grounds, wreck flourishing fisheries. Severe problems may also come from the thick ice expected to remain well past winter in the new reservoirs. By retarding the spring thaw, the freeze-up could cut the already brief northern growing season by two weeks. The prolonged winter weather might also increase spring winds and reduce vital rains...
...only ground and sea transportation. Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 38 (call him Ran Fiennes, his friends do), along with Compatriot Charles Burton, 40, and other team members, set out from Greenwich, England, in September 1979. On Easter Sunday, some 50,000 miles later, the adventurers raced the spring thaw to their penultimate destination, the top of the world. Though a hazardous voyage back to Greenwich over quickly melting ice still lies ahead, Fiennes was exuberant. He rammed a slightly frozen Union Jack into the icecap, then scrambled to unpack their celebratory feast: a chocolate Easter egg and a magnum...