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...Nick Branca was the victor just because he's awfully 'shmenly," Wolff noted. "I wouldn't call him obnoxious, but he's a forceful character who says some funny things...
Representing John Harvard's church, Victor Ford, the current minister of the church, addressed the gathering after Epps had made his remarks. Ford said that when he entered the Boston Latin School in 1943, he was taught that the parents of the school's first high school students in 1635 needed a place to send their seniors...
...painting the summit as a success, the Administration got an assist from, of all people, Gorbachev. The Soviet leader launched his own spin-doctoring campaign as soon as the summit broke up, dispatching 15 diplomats to 35 countries from Austria to Zimbabwe. On successive days, Max Kampelman and Victor Karpov, the heads of the American and Soviet arms- negotiating teams in Geneva, turned up in Bonn to conduct briefings for the West German government. Tuesday night Gorbachev, like Reagan a day earlier, went on television to give his version of the summit events to his fellow countrymen...
What has been even more hopeful, however, is that there were some initial indications that all was not lost and that some of the proposals might yet be salvaged. Victor Karpov, one of the chief Soviet arms negotiators, has indicated that the Soviet Union was prepared to move ahead with the proposal to destroy all intermediate missile warheads and launchers and leave only 100 in Asia and another 100 in the United States. Unfortunately other Soviet officials have since become more skeptical about such decoupling, but certainly there is reason to be considerably more optimistic about the prospects...
...Honduran border town of San Marcos, "is with the kind of action the U.S. pulled off in that island of Grenada." For the moment, though, it seems that the tensions and motions of war will continue, with none of the ready solutions. "No one feels completely secure," says Victor Meza, a political analyst at the Honduran Documentation Center whose name recently appeared on a death list. "Somebody wants to create a climate in which we do not know where the violence is coming from." Whatever the source of that threat -- the contras, the Sandinistas or the newly active local paramilitary...