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...warheads. Instead, I would accept the most recent Soviet counterproposal for a mutual scale-down to 1,800 launchers, but with an added joint limit of, say, 7,500 warheads. Such a simple interim agreement would break the logjam, be easier to verify, provide the basis for a wider treaty later, and we could have it by next summer...
...about leadership on both sides of the confrontation, about a situation that seems beyond anyone's control. Alice Gagnard, 26, a professor of journalism at Marquette University, cites the downing of the Korean plane as an example of Soviet misjudgment and overreaction, but also as evidence of a wider problem. "Their threat has been on my mind more since we changed Administrations and since they changed leaders," she says. "We both have contingency plans against each other, and our level of preparedness has taken us beyond the question of a freeze. It's now a matter of being...
...After may have been poor drama, but if it shakes people out of their apathy and leads to wider discussion and activism, the film will have provided a great public service...
...only has the success of MTV forced radio to play a wider variety of music-to "open its playlists," as industry slang puts it-it has itself assumed both the aspect of radio and much of its influence. "MTV is the largest radio station in America," says CBS Records Vice President Frank M. Dileo...
...Nidal, a rogue P.L.O. leader who ran the Black June terrorist group. After the Lebanese civil war, Assad supported Beirut's right to impose rules on the P.L.O. even though the group was far stronger than the government. While Assad saw the Palestinian cause as subordinate to his wider vision of Arab unity, Arafat believed the P.L.O. must remain Independent of any Arab nation. Differences hi the personal styles of the two men also played a part in their estrangement. A lifelong military man, Assad is used to giving orders, expecting them to be obeyed and staying out of public...