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Some of Brezhnev's arms proposals were less than generous. He called for an immediate halt to "all preparations" for the deployment of 572 U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Western Europe, even though the Soviet Union has at least 160 of its own SS-20 launchers in place. Most analysts believed that the statement was aimed less at disarmament than at buttressing public opposition to the U.S. missiles in Western Europe. The West German government rejected the proposal out of hand. "The West cannot accept a status quo that gives permanence to a Soviet advantage, with...
Their appeal echoed earlier calls from all over the world. A storm of protest had followed the 1979 murder of Archbishop Monseigneur Romero. Romero was the Archbishop of San Salvador who demanded that the United States halt military support to the junta, and was rewarded for his efforts by being assassinated in church while he was delivering mass...
Vice President George Bush last week dispatched a task force from Washington to coordinate federal assistance. In an attempt to halt the body count, the Atlanta city council has barred youths under 16 from city streets between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. unless accompanied by someone 18 or older. Parents can be fined after a child's first violation. Says Camille Bell, mother of one slain child: "When your city council passes an ordinance that is in violation of the U.S. Constitution, that shows how scared...
...Brezhnev will want to paint Moscow's empire in the most favorable light possible; thus the timing of Poland's apparent labor truce works to the Kremlin's advantage. But when Kania returns from Moscow, his ears will almost certainly be ringing with stern warnings to halt his country's creeping pluralism...
There are only a few distractions that can divert the Bushmen from a guerrilla's trail. An entire unit will come to a halt to collect and devour the honey from a wild-bee comb in a tree, for instance. And the presence of a hyena anywhere in the vicinity is likely to bring on inexplicable and uncontrollable fits of derisive laughter from the Bushmen. Otherwise, they have won the respect of their South African officers. "They've taught me what survival means," says one. "For all their small stature, they can put some of our big stocky...