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...easy to see what might be done. Commitments could be lightened, but which friendly states should be told the U.S. might not defend them? Military forces could be built up further; the U.S. may even need the draft. But Reagan is having trouble getting his present defense-spending requests through Congress (he asked for a 14.2% increase over fiscal 1983). Perhaps the most comforting thought is that the Soviet Union, faced by a hostile China on one flank and ringed by potentially mutinous East European allies on another, has its own worries about how much military force it could safely...
Plainly, although Rose is crouched just ten hits from 4,000, only 201 behind Ty Cobb, there is no room for him in Philadelphia any more. One day next month, the Phillies must commit to another $1 million for Rose or sever him at $300,000. While management insists that no decision has been made, Rose simply does not believe that, and he is ready to shop himself around "to any team with a chance to win, because I don't think I could play if there was no chance to win." Or maybe it is time...
DIED. Isidore Zimmerman, 66, a retired doorman who, imprisoned from 1937 to 1962 for a murder he did not commit, was awarded $1 million in damages last May; of a heart attack; in New York City. In 1937 Zimmerman was falsely implicated by one of the killers of a New York police detective and had his death sentence commuted to a life term just hours before he was scheduled to be electrocuted. In 1962 an appellate court ruled that he had been convicted on perjured testimony and that the prosecution had suppressed evidence that would have cleared him. After...
There will rabble to a 825.000 robbery at Harvard this year, still University officials say they knew who will commit the crime...
...arenas slamming their doors to traveling troupes of Soviet athletes, Moscow is being coy about its participation in Los Angeles. "Perverting the Olympic ideals," the triweekly newspaper Soviet Culture reports, "American Big Business has seized control of the preparations of the Games." The Soviets do not have to commit themselves until June...