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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Reported by Christopher Redman and Bruce van Voorst/Washington, with other bureaus
...Pact have been meeting in Vienna to talk about decreasing their conventional military strengths in Europe. Last week the little-known 19-nation talks on Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) came to an ambiguous halt. As the 31st round of the discussions dissolved, Dutch Representative Willem de Vos van Steenwijk announced that NATO representatives had called for further talks to start in January 1984. But, he added, the Warsaw Pact delegation, headed by the Soviet Union, "has neither accepted this proposal nor proposed an alternative date nor provided any explanation for this procedure...
...historians was the University of Wisconsin, with 70. Harvard was a poor second, with 49. When Murray-Blessing separated the experts into categories such as the Ivy League and the Big Ten, they found insignificant variations in assessments. For instance, the Ivy League rated Chester Arthur lower and Martin Van Buren higher than did the folks in the Big Ten. Only their mothers could care...
...Soviet leader could appear at meetings prior to the scheduled Dec. 28 convening of the Supreme Soviet, or parliament, which he chairs. But even if Andropov returns from limbo any time soon, the future course of arms control remains uncertain. -By George Russell. Reported by John Moody/Moscow and Bruce van Voorst/Brussels
Pastels and magic are the main components of The Wreck of the Zephyr, written and illustrated by Chris Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin; $14.95). A small sailboat sits wrecked at the edge of a cliff. How did it get up there? An old salt describes the journey to a place where boats glide above the water like seagulls. Van Allsburg's dark, hypnotic illustrations follow the craft through massed clouds and starry evenings, until it crashes to earth with the surprise of a joke and the power of a folk tale...