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During the four days of meetings in the Kremlin's steel-and-glass Palace of Congresses, delegates are to debate the future of Gorbachev's policies and, hence, perhaps of the General Secretary himself. The widespread expectation is that the conference will be far livelier than the set-piece meetings typical of East bloc politics. That prediction is buttressed by the presence among the delegations of fiery and independent-minded public figures. These include Boris Yeltsin, whom Gorbachev ousted late last year as Moscow party leader, apparently for being a bit too outspoken in favor of perestroika. Yeltsin was nevertheless...
...carry out the slashes required in the future, the Pentagon will have to steel itself to cancel some of the shiny new weapons systems that it is about to buy. Over the next decade, the services are due to spend $80 billion for 132 radar-invisible Stealth bombers; $37.5 billion for 750 Advanced Tactical Fighters, the new jet that is supposed to replace the Air Force F-15; and an additional $35 billion for a Navy version of a similar aircraft...
Tucker was perhaps the most gifted of the English sculptors nurtured by % Anthony Caro's teaching at St. Martin's School in London 30 years ago. They were all struggling to get out from the monolithic influence of Henry Moore by constructing open sculpture from wood or steel, instead of carving or modeling. By the late '70s Tucker was bringing an unusual intensity and even drama to his constructed work. He made pieces like the magisterial House of the Hanged Man, 1981, out of weathered, blackened balks of timber and bits of roof trusses and piers held together with massive...
Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner announced the award of the prize to Maisy M. Chan '88, who could not attend the ceremony because she is working for the summer in a steel factory in Germany. Chan, who immigrated to America 10 years ago from China, has also been involved in the Cambridge Youth Enrichment Program. For her academic achievement, Chan was named a Phi Beta Kappa member and received a Mellon Fellowship for graduate study in philosophy...
...fire reduced Yale's metal-framed shanty--which originally consisted of three buildings when students erected it in early 1986 but was later connected together--to bits of wood and twisted steel. The blaze, which caused no injuries, cracked the stone beneath the shanty, engulfed nearby trees and planters and slightly damaged an adjacent memorial to the anti-apartheid movement...