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Last week, however, the battleground finally shifted. Victor Karpov, the chief Soviet arms negotiator, sat down at the banquet-size table in the Botanic Building, the drab headquarters of the U.S. arms-control delegation across from Geneva's tidy botanical gardens, and began reading slowly from a lengthy document. For half an hour the Soviet negotiator droned on, speaking in the argot of nuclear weaponry. His monologue was technical and arcane, yet it was immensely important. At the least, it promised to deliver arms control from the realm of rhetoric to the real business of negotiated give-and-take over...
Gorbachev's reply artfully established his ease with French culture. Once again he saluted General De Gaulle, this time along with Victor Hugo and Antoine de St. Exupery ("We are all passengers on the same boat, which is earth"). Then Gorbachev lambasted any "attempt to transfer military rivalry into space, as if there wasn't enough of it on earth." Finally, he added, "If those who push this matter insist on continuing their dangerous course of action, the world will find itself facing hard times...
Which didn't keep Velvets' pal Gerard Melanga and British writer Victor Bockris from penning Up-Tight, a comprehensive Velvet Underground bio. The Polygram/Verve label remastered the first Velvets album, The Velvet Underground and Nico, and rereleased the second and third albums White Light/White Heat and The Velvet Underground, long out of print...
Results of those elections will not be available until Tuesday, said Victor A. Koivumaki III '68, who runs the elections for Class Marshal...
...Victor agreed that although actors and techies are often doubling up, he feels the quality of plays will not decline...