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...scenes of terrorist carnage unfolded in Vienna and Rome, a spasm of racial violence shattered seasonal hopes of peace and goodwill across South Africa. For the country's whites, all signs appeared to point to a new and ominous phase of killing, one that seemed to bear out recent warnings by the outlawed African National Congress (A.N.C.) that "soft" targets--meaning unarmed civilians, including whites--would no longer be off limits. Nonetheless, blacks suffered the brunt of the year-end violence. At least five people died in the township of Soweto, as militants fought with migrant workers who refused...
...Geneva last fall under which the Soviet Union would give up half of its land-based warheads if the U.S. canceled SDI. There have been some high-level hints that the Soviet definition of cancellation would be a ban on testing and deployment but not on the research phase of the program...
Gorbachev's first phase would also include an agreement for "elimination" of U.S. and Soviet intermediate-range missiles from the "European zone." At first glance that looks like Reagan's zero option: no U.S. missiles in Western Europe (the U.S. is deploying 108 Pershing II ballistic and 464 Tomahawk cruise missiles in five countries); no Soviet missiles targeted on Western Europe (Moscow has more than 250 mobile, triple-warhead SS-20s in place). Up until last week, the Soviets insisted on keeping enough SS-20s (roughly 140) to equal the number of missiles in the independent British and French nuclear...
Reagan planned to explain once again his general vision of how both sides could phase in strategic defenses while simultaneously cutting offensive weapons in order to achieve a greater "strategic stability." That explanation, Secretary Shultz had hinted earlier in the week, included offering an inducement: any significant cut in offensive missiles could permit a curtailment...
Like Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. phase, Stefanchik saw more success with her second invention, a sophomore season that saw her hit .389 and steal 24 of 26 bases, only one shy of the Harvard single-season record. Those numbers, and a remarkable 14-game hitting streak, helped her claim status as a Division I All-Star...