Word: luxembourg
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...Dear Colleague," began the letter that was dispatched last week to the 13 defense ministers attending a North Atlantic Treaty Organization conference in Luxembourg, as well as to the defense ministers of France, Spain, Japan, Australia and Israel. The message, signed "Sincerely, Caspar Weinberger," was an invitation from the U.S. Defense Secretary to participate with the U.S. in a $26 billion research program for President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, commonly known as the Star Wars defense system. The U.S., said Weinberger, would appreciate a reply within 60 days...
...that has been going on in several allied nations since President Reagan broached the Star Wars concept in March 1983. No one quarreled publicly with the notion that the U.S. had the right, under existing security treaties, to conduct a space-defense research program; indeed, the ministers attending the Luxembourg meeting endorsed such an effort unanimously, and NATO's Secretary-General, Lord Carrington, described the discussions as "harmonious and constructive...
...serve as a U.S. ambassador; of cancer; in Washington, D.C. The daughter of a railroad-car waiter, she graduated first in her class at George Washington University Law School and later became dean of the law school at Howard University. In 1965 President Johnson appointed her Ambassador to Luxembourg. As Jimmy Carter's Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and then of Health, Education and Welfare, she was a forthright advocate of government intervention to solve social problems and a firm administrator of her sprawling departments...
Favorite Marc Girardelli, the Austrian-born overall World Cup leader who is skilling for Luxembourg, finished third, and Egon Hirt of West Germany was fourth...
...Luxembourg, protesters swamped the U.S. and Japanese embassies with so many telephone calls that they blocked the lines. In cities as far apart as Bonn, Stockholm, Amsterdam and Christchurch, New Zealand, demonstrators paraded outside the two nations' embassies. In Copenhagen, the harbor statue of the Little Mermaid had a Japanese flag draped at her feet and was blindfolded with an American flag; she was also impaled by a symbolic harpoon. These protests were held around the world last week in the name of peace-peace for the threatened leviathan of the deep, the sperm whale...