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Last week Florida took a still more drastic step to halt the epidemic: it quarantined the state's 300 commercial citrus nurseries. Said Charles Poucher, director of the state's canker project: "It causes an extreme hardship on nurserymen, but it had to be done because we can't live with citrus canker...
Along the way, the small band of tourists even stopped at City Hospital to meet the now-famous local health commissioner who made the Department of Defense halt the testing of deadly nerve gases in the city...
...carrot-and-stick diplomacy. He dangled the carrot in front of eight American Senators, led by West Virginia Democrat Robert Byrd, who called on him in the Kremlin. Gorbachev, said Byrd, promised that if the U.S. "would agree to prohibit the militarization of space," in other words call a halt to Star Wars, Moscow would "put on the negotiating table . . . the very next day" a set of the "most radical proposals" to reduce offensive nuclear weapons...
...propaganda, Gorbachev did appear to open one possibly fruitful avenue for negotiation. In the TIME interview, he drew a distinction between "fundamental" or laboratory research into Star Wars weaponry, which he conceded "will continue" because there would be no way to verify a halt, and the building of "models or mock-ups or test samples," which could be stopped by a verifiable agreement. Byrd found this a welcome contrast to the previous "stonewalling" of Soviet negotiators, who had insisted that SDI research of any kind must cease as the prelude to an arms-control deal. It could point toward...
...have struck out. The Georgia department of transportation was set to build a four-lane road providing access to the Carter Library, between downtown Atlanta and Emory University. Preservationists took the department to court and won, and the parkway construction has just ground to a halt. No comment yet from Carter, but win a few, lose a few may come to mind...