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...which the Pentagon set forth U.S. military strategy for the next five years. Its missile-rattling conclusions made front-page headlines in the New York Times just as Ronald Reagan was embarking on a European tour designed to reassure allies who are concerned about the danger of an atomic showdown and Reagan's hawkish instincts. The disclosures undercut a Memorial Day announcement about the beginning of new Soviet-American arms-control talks and served as an unwelcome counterpoint to a sobering report by an international commission on disarmament...
...budget, an act of defiance that ultimately would lead to Britain's political isolation from Europe. Assuming cooler heads prevail in London, Britain is likely to return to the bargaining table this week to assess the damage to its interests and those of its European partners. A showdown in the Falklands was enough for the moment...
...thing, however, seems almost certain. Next fall will feature a philosophical showdown between two loose camps of officials--those who prize the microcosms goal enought to overcome the practical flaws of other House assignment schemes and those who value the current preferential system and the unique House characters that have developed because...
...ought to be fighting. The cause of the Malvinas is the cause of Cuba, of Latin America and of the Third World." Yet despite the self-serving rhetoric of the Soviets and their clients, the majority view is that the Falklands will not inflate into an East-West showdown. "Frankly, I do not see the danger of this escalating to that extent," Reagan said last week...
...Doyle scored a goal with seven minutes left in the fourth quarter and line mate Rich Rainaldi scored another with only three minutes left in the period to thwart a furious Dartmouth comeback and secure a 9-8 win for the Harvard men's lacrosse team in Saturday's showdown at the Business School field...