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Kalb's address, "U.S./Soviet Relations: The Quest for Sanity," was part of his two-day stay at the Institute of Politics as a Heffernan Visiting Fellow...
...raise cash. The San Francisco-based giant (assets: $117.3 billion) has laid off 6.3% of its 80,000 employees this year, and last week it finalized the sale of its carleasing subsidiary to General Electric Credit for some $215 million. BankAmerica's main unit, Bank of America, completed a two-day auction that was billed as the largest farmland sale in California history. The bank put 3,821 fertile acres in the state's Central Valley on the block as a start at unloading 214,000 acres of land that the bank has unwillingly accumulated by foreclosing on bad agricultural...
...After a two-day strategy session in the Baltic port of Gdansk, Solidarity called simultaneous press conferences there and in Warsaw to deliver a stunning announcement: the organization was moving back aboveground and would openly campaign for recognition. "We do not want to act clandestinely," said Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa in announcing the formation of the Temporary Council of Solidarity, which will seek to persuade the government to permit independent trade unions. "It is necessary to work out and agree upon a new model of open and legal activity," Walesa added...
...five team members--Terry Murray, Tom Aucamp, Dan Mahoney, Patrick Kenary, and John Beizer--represented Harvard at the two-day event, which featured 30 colleges from the New England area...
Still, Reagan insisted on confining the 45-minute discussion to the Daniloff case, which Shultz pronounced a "cloud hanging over" any chance for progress between the two nations. Although neither side budged on the Daniloff issue, Shultz and his counterpart were nevertheless surprisingly upbeat about the results of their two-day talks. "Quite a few items that seemed insoluble a year ago are now working themselves out," Shultz said after the meetings ended Saturday. He cited strategic arms and "especially" intermediate-range missiles based in Europe as the most promising areas for agreement. For his part, Shevardnadze implied that...