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1、2013届高考英语听力特训3（word文本）：33The United States declared a truce today in its diplomatic expulsion war with the Soviet Union. State Department spokesman Charles Redman said, We hope this set of issues can now be put behind us. Redman did say that any restrictions placed on temporary American workers in M
2、oscow would be matched by limits on Soviet workers here. He condemned the latest Soviet expulsion order, but said its time the two governments moved on to arms control and other issues taken up by President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev at their meetings in Iceland two weeks ago. President Reag
3、an left the White House today for a two-day campaign trip. The President hopes to boost Republican Senate candidates and his first stop was in Wisconsin, where he appeared on behalf of freshman Senator Robert Castan. Mark Levine of member station WUWM reports from Milwaukee. President Reagan came he
4、re to endorse Senator Castan whos in a close re-election race against Democrat Edward Garvey, the former chief of the National Football League Players Union. In his speech at a GOP rally, Mr. Reagan said his name will never be on the ballot again. So if you want to vote for me, vote for Bob Castan,
5、so that we can have a Republican Senate that will work with me instead of against me and be around after Im gone. But Im not, Im not just asking that for me. Do it for yourself. Do it for Wisconsin. Do it for America. Recent polls showed Senator Castan narrowly leading Garvey. Republicans here belie
6、ve the Presidents appearance will help Castan win re-election on November 4th. For National Public Radio, this is Mark Levine in Milwaukee. The lawyer representing Eugene Hasenfus prepared today to enter a plea to charges that could send the captured flier to prison for thirty years. Hasenfus is acc
7、used of committing a terrorist act and violating Nicaraguan security by taking part in a contra supply mission. Former US Attorney-Griffen Bell is expected to arrive today in Managua to aid in Hasenfus defense. Hasenfus met for two hours today with his Nicaraguan attorney. For the past few weeks, th
8、e United States and the Soviet Union have been expelling each others diplomats almost on a daily basis. Today, the US called a truce. NPRs Jim Angle reports. The United States called a halt today to week-long retaliatory exchange with the Soviet Union, leaving both sides searching for ways to deal w
9、ith new restrictions on their respective diplomatic mission. The tit-for-tat retaliations ended abruptly as the State Department announced that it would match some minor restrictions by the Soviets on the number of visas given for temporary personnel. But the administration did not expel any more So
10、viet diplomats, even though the Soviets in their last retaliation yesterday ordered the expulsion of five more Americans. State Department spokesman Charles Redman made clear that as far as the US is concerned, the matter is over. This is our response. We hope that this set of issues can now be put
11、behind us. Redman emphasized the most positive aspects of the retaliations and then sought to shift the focus of US-Soviet relations to more productive matters. There seems to be common ground in the mutual acknowledgement of parity and reciprocity as the foundation of our diplomatic relationship. W
12、e need now to get on with resolution of the larger issues affecting US-Soviet relations and build on the progress made in the discussions at Reykjavik. The common ground on reciprocity went a good bit further than the US hoped. The administration, responding to an expulsion of five Americans last Su
13、nday, ordered out an equal number of Soviet diplomats on Tuesday. And at the same time, the US said that it was permanently reducing the size of the staff at the Soviet Embassy and Consulate in the US to equal the number of Americans now stationed in the Soviet Union. And the administration expelled
14、 fifty Soviet diplomats to get the Soviet Union down to that level immediately. American officials said all fifty-five Soviets expelled this week were spies, the same allegation the US made against the twenty-five Soviets it expelled from their UN mission in September. The Soviets retaliated yesterd
15、ay in a way that left the US no corresponding action to take. They withdrew all the Soviet citizens working for the US Embassy in Moscow and the Consulate in Leningrad, a total, the Soviets said, of two hundred sixty. Those people are the maids, cooks, drivers, mechanics and translators for the Emba
16、ssy staff in the Soviet Union. The Soviets, by contrast, rely almost exclusively on Soviet citizens assigned to the US for the same kind of work. State Department spokesman Redman acknowledged the Soviet action will make things more difficult for our diplomats in the Soviet Union. We expect that there will have to be some fairly substantial changes in our staffing patterns, as we need personnel to take up the tasks previously performed by others. A
