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What on earth was half of the Reagan Administration, or what seemed like it, doing in Europe last week while Washington burned? There was Secretary of State George Shultz, arriving in London on the first leg of a five-day fence- mending trip. While in the British capital, he crossed paths with Attorney General Edwin Meese, who had come to urge a meeting of European Community interior ministers to stand tough against terrorism. Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger had just been in Belgium shoring up U.S. arms-control positions with his NATO counterparts. And at week's end Shultz...
...effort to correct these assumptions, some 2,000 teachers have taken a + five-day consciousness-raising seminar sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation and administered by Berkeley-based Equals in Computer Technology. More than 4,000 women, many of them teachers, have paid $295 to attend the San Francisco-based Women's Computer Literacy Project, a two-day total-immersion course...
...economic growth. The ministers, who at times donned Uruguayan wool sweaters and huddled around space heaters, struggled to agree on an agenda for a multiyear series of talks that they hope will create warmer trade relationships around the world. Declared Uruguayan President Julio Maria Sanguinetti as he opened the five-day meeting: "We have to decide whether we are going to promote active and vigorous trade with equal opportunities for all, or whether we will choose the path of trade wars...
...both. In his biography of the actor, Bob Woodward wrote that Belushi, as part of his movie contract, received a $2,500-a-week stipend, which he understood to be his drug allowance. Smith is believed to have been the last person to see the comedian alive after a five-day binge that ended with her injecting him with a series of speedballs, powerful mixtures of cocaine and heroin...
...initially declared himself "disappointed" with the amount of Soviet information: "Our objectives have been met. We came to learn as much as we could. This does not mean we know everything. But the Soviet experts don't know everything either." While some understandings were reached during the five-day session, few if any minds were changed...