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...from the murk of suspicion and ambiguity. General Edward Rowny, the chief U.S. negotiator at the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), began the week on what appeared to be an upbeat note by declaring that if the Soviets return to the bargaining table, "we are now in a posi-tion to make a breakthrough." He suggested that the U.S. might trade some of its edge in bombers and air-launched cruise missiles for Soviet cutbacks in its lead in heavy land-based missiles. He also indicated that the U.S. might be willing to merge START with the Intermediate Nuclear Force...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arms Dance | 2/13/1984 | See Source »

...while, is all I can possibly know of it. The wild gas, the fixed air, is plainly broke loose; but we ought to suspend our judgment until the first effervescence is a little subsided, till the liquor is cleared and until we see something deeper than the agita tion of a troubled and frothy surface. I must be tolerably sure, before I venture publicly to congratulate men upon a blessing, that they have really received one." Which is to say that when people or ideas are unfettered, they are freed but not yet free. To be free, in fact, seems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: What Really Mattered? Not just great events, but underlying causes | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

Drawing on the Faculty's experience in the late 60s. Rosovsky cites an example: "We pass a mo- tion that it is evil to bomb Cambodia. I vote against that. What does it mean? It means that I have a different view. That consensus doesn't really mean anything...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'A Continual Struggle' | 6/9/1983 | See Source »

Rosovsky, in an interview yesterday, said that Harvard's financial aid office has increased efforts in the last year to let students better know their aid opportunities. In addi- tion. I. Pred Jewett '57, does of admission and financial aid, said that the last several months has brought "much more helped publicity" about student aid possibilities...

Author: By Michael J. Abramowitz, | Title: Rosovsky Report Says Aid Worries Exaggerated | 4/29/1983 | See Source »

...Jumblatt's Progressive Socialist Party and the Phalangist-dominated Christian militias known as the Lebanese Forces. Before the latest incident, the government of President Amin Gemayel asked the U.S. to help maintain order by doubling the size of its 1,200-man Marine contingent in .,. Lebanon. The Administra-|tion said it would consider doing so only after the with-Ejdrawal of foreign armies i from Lebanon had begun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Middle East: Facing Drastic Choices | 12/13/1982 | See Source »

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