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...movies. In fact, they took their teenagers as well -- probably in separate cars -- to films that cut across generational chasms. "Someone called me yesterday," says Fugitive director Andrew Davis, "whose nine-year-old loved it." Nora Ephron, director of Sleepless in Seattle, surmises that her audience is "grownups -- over 18s, anyway -- and more females than males. But when you get up to where we are, everybody is going to see it." Wolfgang Petersen, whose In the Line of Fire is in the same box-office stratosphere as Sleepless, has similar anecdotal evidence. "At the theaters," he says, "I found...
...American strategic planners, that is something akin to putting the genie back into the bottle. While the U.S. was first to place several warheads, each aimed at a different target, atop intercontinental missiles, the Soviet Union upped the ante. It built 308 giant SS-18s with 10 warheads each, which provided Moscow with what Washington tensely termed a "first-strike capability," that is, enough power to raise fears of a possible surprise attack...
Russia will now scrap its SS-18s and its highly capable SS-24s. In fact, said Yeltsin, he had already ordered the SS-18s taken off active status. The U.S. will dismantle its MX missiles and will bring its Minuteman III missiles down to one warhead apiece. The U.S. will also cut by more than half the number of warheads on submarine-based missiles...
HELMUT KOHL has a bone to pick with BORIS YELTSIN. As the largest contributor of economic aid so far to the troubled republics, Germany is just a tad ticked off by U.S. intelligence reports that the old Soviet Union continues to briskly manufacture nuclear weapons. Among them are SS-18s, SS- 25s and SS-24s traditionally aimed at Western Europe. How come? Maybe no one remembered to tell the factories to stop. Whatever the explanation, Chancellor Kohl intends to do something about it. While he will continue providing emergency rations to the republics this winter, Germany may halt financing...
...Soviets tested a pair of modified SS-18s tipped with dummy warheads; one missile landed 600 miles northwest of Hawaii, while another, aimed 360 miles southwest of the islands, apparently misfired. The Pentagon claimed the firings were the closest Soviet missiles had come to American soil. Said Senator Malcolm Wallop, Republican of Wyoming: "The Soviets were practicing an attack on America." The Pentagon later acknowledged that a Soviet naval vessel aimed a laser beam at two American surveillance aircraft in the area, apparently to disrupt U.S. monitoring efforts. One pilot reportedly suffered temporary eye damage...