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Edward Rowny read aloud a letter from President Reagan calling the superpowers "trustees for humanity in the great task of ending the menace of nuclear arsenals." His Soviet counterpart Victor Karpov delivered a brief homily, concluding that "the most important thing about these talks is that we are now finally talking." With that opening exchange last week at Villa Rose, Moscow's diplomatic mission in Geneva, the two negotiators ended a hiatus of three years and resumed an esoteric, tedious and secrecy-shrouded but vital business: trying to reduce the swollen Soviet and U.S. inventories of the most powerful...
...hours he had orginally promised, and that its aims had shifted from simply clearing out a 25-mile buffer zone to besieging the capital and threatening a bloody assault. "Unlike other wars, this one was one war on the first day and it became a different war," charged Victor Shem-Tov, a leader of Napam, the left-wing ally of the Labor Party, who demanded Sharon's resignation. Outraged, Sharon shot back: "I don't intend to resign...
Rushed into the top challenger's position after 25 short victories, and rusty from 13 months of inactivity, Cooney fought Holmes more than twelve brave rounds, until he could barely stand up and his trainer, Victor Valle, could stand no more. With fewer than ten seconds remaining in the 13th round, Valle scrambled under the ropes and ran across the ring, folded his arms about his fighter and propped his head on Cooney's chest. He held on dearly. The fighter's left eyelid was sliced, and the bridge of his two-tiered nose was split...
...sultry fuse to the plot's ethnic charge. There are many preliminary explosions as Teenager casually murders his way through the business day. At times, this nonchalance is carried too far: "Teenager shot Gigi in the back of the head with the gun in his left hand and Victor in the back of the head with the gun in his right hand. He fired once more into each head. He stuffed the guns into his belt and dove out of the Lincoln on the street side, so schoolyard kids would...
Benny drove up in his Mercedes. As the car pulled away, Teenager could see Gigi and Victor with their heads against the seat backs. Teenager began to think of a place to get rid of the guns. Then, like a bored cat, he began to lick the blood from his hands...