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FINALLY, A STEP in the right direction. Last week, the Reagan Administration offered Nicaragua a new eight-point plan that would put a thaw to the Cold War that has developed in recent months between the two countries. In essence, the proposal calls for the U.S. to resume aid to the Central American nation, pledge non-intervention in Nicaraguan affairs and pressure counter-revolutionaries training on American soil to cease their activities. In return, the Sandinistas must agree to end aid to leftist guerrillas in El Salvador and put a limit on their arms build-up and the number...
...overall), despite its recent slide under 500 and an extended schedule which left the team with only two practices to prepare for tonight's game, could conceivably turn in a repeat performance. The team started out 5-3-1 in ECAC play but then suffered its annual January thaw, dropping four straight conference games, including a 4.3 loss to B.C. at home before breaking for exams two weeks ago. Last year, the team dragged a seven-game ECAC losing streak into the tournament and proceeded to knock North-eastern into Section 64 But Cleary is to reads to make comparisons...
...northern counties. The hillsides around San Francisco Bay are still waterlogged from weeks of downpours. Residents feared that devastating floods and mudflows, which killed 37 people just a week earlier, might strike again. In Idaho, there was concern about the prospect of warm chinook winds, which could thaw the state's flood-high but now frozen rivers. Boise, Idaho, wedged in a valley, had half a foot of snow and subzero temperatures, but the most worrisome weather anomaly was a fetid "inversion layer" of smog that blanketed the city. Low temperatures and a dearth of forest forage, Utah wildlife...
...Duke, "it's kind of setting up a situation where anything else that comes your way is going to be even colder." His colleague Larry Wilson added a disquieting caveat. "These situations," he warned, "can last for a month." For most of the U.S., where even a brief thaw was still a dream, one week had seemed more than enough. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Chicago, with other U.S. bureaus
Veterans of Cold War I who are rushing to re-enlist for Cold War II should get a lift from this jaunty medley of 1950s history and spy fiction. Through diplomatic freeze and thaw, William F. Buckley Jr., editor of the National Review, has always kept his ideological thermostat set at a conservative 32° F. In his fourth novel-entertainment, he again slips into the adventurous alter id, Blackford Oakes, the dashing Yalie spook who first appeared in Saving the Queen...