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Argentina has steadfastly refused to sign the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty or to submit most of its atomic facilities to international inspection. It has always insisted that it would use atomic energy for peaceful purposes. Even so, its new-found nuclear prowess inevitably will give Argentina added clout in its disputes with Britain over the Falkland Islands and with Chile over the Beagle Channel at the tip of South America. U.S. intelligence sources estimate that Argentina, should it choose to do so, would be able to produce a nuclear weapon in one to five years...
...sales: $516.1 million) has gradually been losing its fizz. The company's namesake Dr Pepper brand fell from 5.4% of the soft-drink market in 1981 to 5.1% last year. Moreover, the Dallas-based firm knew things might continue getting worse because it lacks the financial and marketing clout to compete effectively against the soft-drink industry's giants: Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion) and highly diversified PepsiCo (1982 sales: $7.5 billion). So, taking a hint from one of its old commercials, Dr Pepper has been looking for a friendly pepper-upper. Last week the company found...
...gave businesslike Mayor Kathy Whitmire, 37, a second term by a lopsided (64% to 35%) margin. San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein was even more unstoppable: her five challengers together could muster only 21% of the vote. Collins of Kentucky may outrank her, but Feinstein, 50, has more Democratic Party clout than any other woman...
...predict whether Reagan will sign the bill once the House and Senate have ironed out their small differences. Either way, the real test will come in 1985, when Congress is scheduled to do a comprehensive overhaul of all farm-price programs. Then it will be seen who has more clout, the milk lobby or the milk consumers...
Only four years ago, when Cuban-allied governments came to power almost simultaneously in Nicaragua and Grenada, Castro's clout seemed to be on the rise. But an erosion began the next year when voters in Jamaica elected conservative Edward Seaga to succeed leftist Michael Manley, a Castro ally, as Prime Minister. Jamaica has now swung so strongly against Cuba that Seaga sent troops to assist in the invasion of Grenada and last week expelled the last semiofficial Cuban on the island, a correspondent for the Cuban news service Prensa Latina. Seaga charged that the correspondent had participated with...