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...Scale back the huge $240 million buy of C-17 transport planes, designed for rapid reinforcement in Europe, from 210 to 120. The longer warning time required for a Warsaw Pact attack, Cheney said, will permit more U.S. resupply by ship. Cheney also argued that the big C-17 can land on the shorter runways of Third World airports. But the C-17, though arguably necessary against the Warsaw Pact, is too much airplane for Third World tasks, and any successor should be more like the reliable C-141s still flying...
...fledgling movement does not advocate the dismantling of either socialism or the Communist Party. But it has adopted a manifesto demanding that China end the one-party system, reform the economy, permit freedom of speech, release political prisoners and "liberate the mind and completely eradicate feudal vestiges" -- a reference to lifetime official tenures, nepotism and corruption in the regime...
...university. The club does not have access to the university's Centrex telephone system; it does not receive protection from the Harvard University police; there is no mail box on the campus where the club can receive mail; the club cannot use Harvard University's non-profit mailing permit; and the club has no access to alumni records or mailing lists. As stated previously, the club does not advertise any of its events in university publications, nor does the university mention the club in any of its publications for students. The university does not regulate the timing of "punching...
Morgan, now married to federal appeals court Judge Paul Michel, is preparing for another test of wills with Judge Dixon. She is determined to go to New Zealand, where the courts might permit her accusations against Foretich to be aired in open court. But she cannot leave the U.S. unless Dixon gives his permission. It may be Foretich, not Morgan, who gets to see Hilary first...
...casual aside. During a discussion about German unification in Ottawa, Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze interrupted himself, looked across the table at U.S. Secretary of State James Baker and said, "Oh, by the way." Shevardnadze then proceeded to report that Moscow had approved George Bush's plan that would permit the two superpowers to maintain 195,000 troops each in Europe's central zone and for the U.S. to station an additional 30,000 elsewhere on the Continent. Only four days earlier in Moscow, Baker had listened to Mikhail Gorbachev reject any proposal setting unequal European troop deployments. The turnaround...