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Baker looked tired when he finally emerged from discussions he described as "heavy lifting." The U.S. and the U.S.S.R. had reached a "trail- blazing" agreement to ban superpower production of chemical weapons and to destroy existing stockpiles that, said Baker, could serve as a model for the global ban now under negotiation by 40 nations. They also cleared away the biggest obstacle to a strategic arms-reduction treaty: how to cut air- and sea-launched cruise missiles. Settling on the complicated formulas to regulate these elusive, nuclear-tipped weapons opens the way to a sweeping treaty that will trim overall...
...Ripa di Meana, an Italian, has demanded full environmental studies, and says triumphantly that doubts about the Venice site are setting in: "It will finish in the paper basket." But outgoing Mayor Casellati is still worried. "I'm going off to sail in the lagoon," he says. "Before they destroy...
...years before he studied engineering, Sununu was whipping older boys in high school debate tournaments. Then as now, he could argue either side of a question with equal gusto. Unlike lawyers, debaters never seek friendly, out- of-court settlements: their goal is to intellectually destroy the opponent. Sununu wields his prodigious memory like a sword, inundating his adversary with data. And he resorts early and often to ad hominem bullying. Observes a senior White House official: "There is something in Sununu's personality where he cannot stay in his seat if someone says or does something that he thinks...
Supporters counter that black males are more frequently tracked into special-education classes than black girls or their white peers and would be no worse off segregated for normal instruction. "Black boys are already in classes by themselves," points out Jawanza Kunjufu, author of Countering the Conspiracy to Destroy Black Boys...
...Convergence is a dream. We've got to be strong, stronger than the capitalists -- then there'll be peace. If the imperialists use nuclear weapons, we'll retaliate at once with everything we've got and destroy every target necessary to ensure victory...