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...Caesars Palace World Cup championship in Las Vegas. The body she has created for herself is, to untutored eyes, too awesome and frightening, a kind of self-imposed freak of nature. For that reason, Pumping Iron II is better, funnier and more troubling than its popular predecessor...
These words and deeds signaled a definite switch in the Kremlin's mood after the painfully indecisive 13-month reign of Chernenko. They also seemed to confirm that, as some Western analysts had suspected, the new General Secretary is a disciple of policies conceived by Chernenko's predecessor, Yuri Andropov. Explained Jeremy Azrael, senior analyst of Soviet affairs at the Rand Corp.: "To say that there have been new ideas on the domestic front would be a gross overstatement." Gorbachev, said Azrael, "is the heir of Andropov...
...interview with the Washington Post last week, Reagan said he had received a response to the invitation that Vice President George Bush hand- delivered to Mikhail Gorbachev at the funeral of his predecessor, Konstantin Chernenko. Administration officials said the President had received a "positive" reply, but admitted it was vague and noncommittal. "There are no negotiations for a summit," said White House Spokesman Larry Speakes, and added, "There has been no discussion about arrangements for a summit, no meeting set, no time set, nothing along those lines...
...accurately as possible led him from hillsides to rooftops and from the seaside to the desert. After three trips to Israel, Tassel says, he began to develop a "sense of identify" with the early photographers. "I often knew that I was photographing from the exact spot chosen by my predecessor, but my appreciation deepened as I realized that he had not only selected the aesthetically pleasing viewpoint, but also the most obvious place to rest his cumbersome equipment...
...much the same way that his mentor and predecessor Andropov was a skillful conductor of the anti-Euromissile campaign, Gorbachev is likely to be a deft opponent of Star Wars. Once again, the campaign will be pitched largely to the West Europeans who are skittish about the possibility that Star Wars research will lead to testing and deployment of systems that will provoke a new, extraterrestrial arms race...