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...such a tragedy and improve air-traffic communications in the North Pacific, diplomats and aviation officials from Japan, the U.S. and the Soviet Union for the past 18 months have been quietly trying to set up a better system. Last week in Tokyo they reached a preliminary agreement to establish a communications hot line, possibly a telephone link, between Anchorage, Tokyo, and Khabarovsk, in the Soviet Far East...
...most popular party in Pakistan. It is also the dominant member of the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy, a coalition of political groups that has been pressing Zia to end martial law and restore full parliamentary democracy. The coalition boycotted national elections called by Zia last February to establish an elected National Assembly; political parties were not allowed to participate. The M.R.D. also opposes Zia's attempt to get the Assembly to ratify constitutional changes that would ensure a permanent governmental role for the military and legalize all actions taken by his regime under martial...
...nine months ago, owners began pleading that they could not afford the salary race. Forecasting losses of $90 million a year by 1988 and warning that major-league baseball was in jeopardy, they demanded that the players follow the example of the once fiscally battered National Basketball Association and establish a cap on salaries...
...pair of California neuroscientists. More revealing of the bizarre possibilities of this kind of scientific quest is the case of Lenin. In 1925 the Soviets, applying a socialist definition of genius, entrusted his brain to a German neurologist, Oskar Vogt. The idea, explains Psychiatrist Walter Reich, was "to establish an institute in Moscow entirely devoted to the purpose of discovering the 'materialist' (that is, 'physical') basis for Lenin's political and philosophical genius." Two years and 34,000 slices later, Vogt found, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, a "large number of paths proceeding from the pyramidal...
...would like to open new consulates in both countries, restore landing rights for U.S. and Soviet airlines, which were eliminated after the KAL 007 tragedy, and establish a system of regular superpower summits...