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...transcends whatever economic and security understandings may be reached in Versailles and Bonn. It offers Reagan the chance to conduct for the first time diplomacy on a grand scale, to exert the natural leadership of the American presidency within the Atlantic Alliance, and to continue his efforts to regain from the Soviets the propaganda initiative on disarmament. The ambitious goal: to show that there is still a fundamental unity among America, Western Europe and Japan that transcends the well-publicized strains within the alliance...
...supply vessel, the Atlantic Conveyor, disabled and abandoned. The Conveyor was hit by the same type of Exocet missile that sank the British destroyer H.M.S. Sheffield four weeks ago. Including another frigate, H.M.S. Ardent, sunk on May 22, Britain said it had lost five ships in the struggle to regain the islands, but Argentina claimed Royal Navy losses were higher than that...
...politically charged social issues like permitting prayer in public schools. The Administration needed time, said the President and his men, to concentrate on more urgent economic problems. With the economy's downward spiral beginning to erode Reagan's political base, the President moved last week to regain some good will with a constituency that is vital for him. At the same time he moved to diminish the anger of another group, which has never trusted...
Tufts got things going almost immediately against Crimson starter Greg Brown, still struggling to regain the form that made him one of Harvard's top pitchers over the last two seasons. Brown lasted only one third of an inning, giving up two hits and two walks and allowing three runs, two of them earned...
...this point the leading candidate for the state's second-in-command executive post, along with Evelyn Murphy, who served as secretary of environmental affairs under former Gov. Michael S. Dukakis . Both seem to be aiming for the liberal delegates pledged to support Dukakis in his attempt to regain the governorship...