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REAGAN AND GORBACHEV met in October in Iceland but
their talks ended in a stalemate when an arms control accord col-
lapsed after the Soviets insisted the U.S. scrap its "Star Wars"
program for space-based defense. No summit has been set.
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WALDHEIM AND THE POPE met at the Vatican in June,
ELIE WIESEL, survivor, chronicler and conscience of the Holocaust, was awarded the Nobel Peace
Prize in October. At ceremonies in Oslo, he said the honor "belongs to all the survivors, to their
children and, through us, to the Jewish people with whose destiny I have always identified."
triggering outrage from Jews incensed that the leader of the
Catholic Church would meet, and praise, a man accused of Nazi
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war crimes.
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BABY M was awarded to her father, Dr. William Stern, by a New
Jersey court after a long, public trail which called into question
the legality of surrogate-mother agreements. Jewish theologians
were among those divided on the ethical implications of the case.
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IVAN BOESKY agreed to pay
a $100 million penalty for insider
trading violations on Wall Street.
He subsequently withdrew his
participation in a number of
Jewish causes and his name
from the main library he donated
on the campus of the Jewish
Theological Seminary, where he
took courses this summer.
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HARVEY MEYERHOFF of
Baltimore took over the chair-
manship of the U.S. Holocaust
Memorial Council after Elie
Wiesel stepped down.
A HOLOCAUST MUSEUM in
Washington will be built before
the end of the decade at a pro-
jected cost of about $100
million. A slightly revised design
was approved in June by the
federal Commission of Fine Arts
after initial rejection.