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The government’s index of leading economic indicators fell in February for the fourth month in a row, but no one seems unduly alarmed. The index, you see, has predicted nine of the last two recessions.

What will the President do besides visiting Moscow? Maybe the Tolstoi estate? The Hermitage Museum? Other Soviet sights? The first choice now seems to be Helsinki, to symbolize his concern for human rights. Yes, that’s it, the site of the 1975 accords on human rights, violated before the ink was dry, and then on to Moscow for another treaty.

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The government’s index of leading economic indicators fell in February for the fourth month in a row, but no one seems unduly alarmed. The index, you see, has predicted nine of the last two recessions.

What will the President do besides visiting Moscow? Maybe the Tolstoi estate? The Hermitage Museum? Other Soviet sights? The first choice now seems to be Helsinki, to symbolize his concern for human rights. Yes, that’s it, the site of the 1975 accords on human rights, violated before the ink was dry, and then on to Moscow for another treaty.