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Writers Peter Gammons (baseball), Ron Borges (football), Dan Shaugnessy (basketball) and columnist Leigh Montville are among the best in the country, and the Sunday section--which includes a notes column on each major sport--is a handy procrastination tool...
...this a welcome contrast to the previous "stonewalling" of Soviet negotiators, who had insisted that SDI research of any kind must cease as the prelude to an arms-control deal. It could point toward the kind of trade suggested by such American conservatives as former President Richard Nixon and Columnist William Safire: limitations on the deployment and, perhaps, testing of defensive systems, though not on research, in return for cuts in the numbers of missiles and warheads. Although Reagan has ruled out using SDI as a bargaining chip, such a deal has an ap-pealing logic: it was the Soviet...
Covering the political system as a reporter prevented John J. Casserly from setting down for more than two decades. But now the columnist for the Arizona Republic has made the West his home and has turned his life toward trumpeting its promise as the future of America...
...each other halfway. That, again, is why we have reacted so sharply to some of the statements being made these days in connection with the summit. So we see that there are some who want to generate a situation to persuade the U.S. and the American public that, as (Columnist) Mary McGrory put it, even if the only thing to come out of the summit was an agreement to exchange ballet troupes, then even so people would be gleeful and happy...
That was not the only way in which Gorbachev gave the impression of being a new type of Kremlin leader. He sprinkled his remarks with knowledgeable but unostentatious references to an American newspaper columnist, Third World poverty and the technology of Star Wars weaponry. He displayed a talent for vivid metaphor unheard in the Kremlin since the days of Nikita Khrushchev. Sample: "Certain people in the U.S. are driving nails into this structure of our relationship, then cutting off the heads. So the Soviets must use their teeth to pull them out." He made political points with biting humor...