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Daniloff's release from Lefortovo seemed to prevent, at least for the moment, further escalation of a crisis that had threatened to reverse the modest gains in U.S.-Soviet relations painfully wrought over the past year or so. There still remains a possibility that Washington will send some signals of displeasure to the Kremlin. For example, U.S. Ambassador Arthur Hartman, now in Washington for consultations, could be kept home for an extended stay. But the air is now clearer, and when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze visits Washington for talks with Shultz Friday and Saturday, they may find it possible...
...does not indulge in the posturing and showmanship that are a committee chairman's institutional prerogative. Presiding at last week's stormy hearing, he sat primly with his hands folded and his jacket on, oblivious to the heat generated by both television lights and the querulous exchanges between wrought-up Senators and bristling Administration spokesmen. Precise and undramatic, Lugar, 54, comes across more like a fusty academic than a hands-on vote getter. He is regarded as thoughtful -- as opposed to purely brainy -- by friend and foe alike, a quality that stands out among legislators given to impulse. Always dressed...
Whether recalling the glories of the past or peering with lofty vision into the future, the men and women who have led America to the high frontier of space still marvel at what they have wrought and yearn restlessly to get on with what they are certain will one day come to be. In a mere quarter-century, the human race has broken its immemorial bond to the life-sustaining surroundings of the home planet. U.S. space pioneers have been able to orbit the globe, walk on the moon, ring the earth with communications satellites and send a machine nearly...
...rapid spread of crack leads some experts to fear a new wave of cocaine addiction in the U.S., possibly as serious as the devastation wrought by the heroin wave of the late 1960s. Says Dr. Arnold Washton, director of research for the National Cocaine Hotline: "Last May I had never heard of crack. Today we get nearly 700 to 900 calls a day from people having problems with the drug." Crack is more addictive than any other form of cocaine, says Washton. "It's the dealer's dream and the user's nightmare...
While the meeting yielded up no declarations that will be remembered for their ringing prose, it did produce two carefully wrought but unusually direct communiques, one condemning state-sponsored terrorism, another supporting a plan to stabilize currency-rate fluctuations. The statements represented personal victories for two members of the Reagan Cabinet. Secretary of State George Shultz has waged a long and sometimes lonely struggle to develop a consensus in the U.S. and among America's allies on the need to strike back against states that sponsor terrorism; Tripoli and Tokyo are proof that he has succeeded. Treasury Secretary James Baker...