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...George Bush was to deliver his first major speech on U.S.-Soviet relations and 18 days before a NATO summit meeting at which the alliance will be hard pressed to heal the U.S.-West German split over SNF negotiations. Moscow moved swiftly, and with apparent success, to keep the rift open. Shevardnadze used a scheduled trip to Bonn Friday afternoon for meetings with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl and Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher to tout the Soviet proposal. He added a touch of salt to the new Soviet sweetness, warning that if the U.S. expands the reach of its short...
...through the inert resisting bodies. Rescuers are not supposed to push or shove, and they are told not to bring poster sticks or umbrellas that they might be tempted to use as barriers. If the mass is penetrated, it is supposed to ooze back out and around the rift, enclosing it in a new carapace of seated bodies. They move in a human sludge, on their knees, not standing, to make confrontation possible...
Although she discusses the growing rift during the years 1972-73 between the CCA and one of its original founders, Councillor Edward A. Crane '38, Ackermann makes no mention of the final day of the 1973 council session, when Crane and another CCA councillor broke ranks and tried to repeal the city's rent control ordinance...
Castro and Gorbachev signed a 25-year bilateralaccord, which the Cuban news agency Prensa Latinasaid dashes all speculation about a rift betweenHavana and Moscow and ratifies their "traditionalrelations...
Left-wing scholars still question the wisdom of Clark's appointment, and the ideological rift in the faculty is not yet resolved...