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...Kaifu last March in California, more talking time than any previous U.S.-Japan summit, were a watershed. Shortly afterward came a flurry of agreements, including a pact on far-reaching structural reforms. Among other changes, Tokyo promised to ease restrictions on opening large department stores and to impose tougher penalties for protectionist bid-rigging schemes...
...preparation for the tougher teams, Hafferty had to take it easy on his beaten-up squad the week after Easterns, but practices shifted into high gear this past week as the Crimson tightened its defense and sharpened its shooting...
Here, there is more room to wiggle. Tougher measures would include shelving arms-control negotiations, reducing Soviet access to high-technology goods and scaling back diplomatic contacts. For dramatic effect, the U.S. could cancel the Bush-Gorbachev summit scheduled...
...will scrap its plan for moving 50 MX missiles, with ten warheads apiece, from silos onto railroad cars, while ! the Soviets will demobilize 20 of their new, mobile SS-24s, each of which also packs a ten-warhead punch. But will the Soviets, who have recently taken a tougher line on START, trade a mobile weapon they already have for one that is still a gleam in Uncle...
...tide of history was turning his way. The Nagymaros dam became a focal point for the budding political opposition, and when the government began loosening its policies, he published his original article -- in a much tougher version. Public protests against the dam intensified, and last year Hungary finally terminated the project. Vargha, meanwhile, has emerged as a powerful voice of political reform. A founder of the Alliance of Free Democrats, now the leading opposition party, he was offered an official post within the group. But Vargha, 40, declined. Says he: "I am first and foremost an environmentalist...