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...Post. "Those men are dead, killed fighting as regular troops . . . Death does not distinguish among them, any more than it distinguishes them from Nazi victims." The cemetery stop, contended the Atlanta Constitution, demonstrates "this President's desire to put the atrocities and tensions of the past behind him and shift his focus to the radically different world community of the 1980s--where it belongs...
Although U.S. officials were pleased by Hanoi's pledge to return American MIAs, they doubted that Viet Nam was signaling a fundamental shift in policy. The Thach proposal shrewdly preceded the annual conference of the non-Communist Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where ASEAN foreign ministers groped for ways to bring about talks between Viet Nam and the Kampuchean insurgents. A plan calling for negotiations with a Vietnamese delegation that might include representatives of the Heng Samrin regime won the backing of resistance fighters, ASEAN nations and the U.S. But Viet Nam rejected the idea...
...repair transoceanic telephone cables. The Scarab 1 is 11 ft. long, weighs approximately 2˝ tons and is equipped with sophisticated sonar, as well as television cameras with zoom lenses and high-intensity lights that illuminate the ocean floor. A team of eight engineers from London, working four to a shift, controlled the submersible from aboard the cable ship by firing electric and hydraulic thrusters to maneuver the craft, which was attached to a 10,000-ft. umbilical cord. Scarab 1's cameras and mechanical arms were also operated electronically as the engineers tracked its progress on TV screens...
...ozone over JFK Stadium. There were the earnest testimonials from world figures (Bishop Desmond Tutu, Coretta King, Pelé and Linus Pauling). Phone numbers for call-in pledges appeared frequently. There were also, of course, the performers, trotted on according to strict show-biz standards: lightweights draw the day shift, heavies get prime time...
Scruples Inventor Henry Makow had been contemplating the shift in morality from the righteous '60s to the yuppified '80s. "The baby boomers think they're very moral on issues like Nicaragua," he says, "but some of them haven't paid back their college loans. This game is an opportunity to compare notes." A Winnipeg free-lance writer, Makow has been in the question-and-answer business since age eleven, when his advice-to-parents column "Ask Henry" was syndicated in some 40 papers in the U.S. and Canada. He wants players to consider the rules of life, so the rules...