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When Reagan met with Gorbachev at Reykjavik in 1986, Nitze headed the U.S. delegation in an all-night negotiating session. It produced important breakthroughs in the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START), the Reagan Administration's attempt to improve on the much maligned SALT process. The encounter was, says Nitze, "one...
Another domestic mammal has the lead in Michael Patrick Hearn's The Porcelain Cat (Little, Brown; $12.95). A medieval sorcerer wants to bring a feline statue to life. For that he needs an ingredient not sold in stores: basilisk blood. Out goes his assistant, a boy destined to encounter a...
On its long voyage toward Jupiter, the spacecraft is scheduled to pass within 620 miles of the asteroids Gaspra and Ida, the first such close encounter in the annals of interplanetary travel. Then, five months before reaching Jupiter near the end of 1995, Galileo is to release a 730-lb...
The laughs in this movie, and there are many, stem from its broad, broad comedic style combined with some of the most irreverent camera work since the Coen brothers' farcical Raising Arizona. DeVito has enough smarts to realize that the unlikely plot machinations of Momma call for unconventional visual tricks...
A presidential campaign has come to resemble one of those marathon encounter sessions from the early 1970s, in which truth was supposed to emerge after the individual was beaten down by group pressure, exhaustion and the desperate need to have five minutes alone. Travel with any of the current contenders...