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Despite such displays of support for the suspended trade union, Poland's military leaders have made it clear that any new national accord will have to be on their terms...
...Poles began to mark the two weeks of emotional anniversaries that will climax on Aug. 31, the date when the Polish government signed a national accord two years ago with Solidarity, the true depth of the "invisible" hatred had yet to be measured. However unlikely another outburst of widespread national unrest seemed last week, it still could not be counted out. There is a precedent: two years ago at the Lenin shipyard, when one strike came to an end and another of a totally different sort began...
Since the January accord, the judge had pored over 8,000 pages of public comment and several thousand more pages of lawyers' briefs. He accepted the core of the historic agreement, under which AT&T would be free to venture into unregulated businesses like data processing and computers in return for spinning off its 22 local operating companies. But in his 178-page court order, he also insisted on a series of new safeguards for customers and competitors. The key provisions...
...know what they will do. Throughout the years, we have taken all the initiatives. My father [Jawaharlal Nehru, India's first Prime Minister] offered a no-war pact in 1949, and in different forms the offer has been repeated. Then we signed the Simla Agreement [a 1972 accord that calls for the two countries to negotiate their differences], but they did not want the words no war used. Now suddenly, along with the purchase of the F16, President Zia puts in this little bonbon about a no-war pact. I have suggested that we have a treaty of cooperation...
...first point, the Soviets have already seen the Administration come a long way. On Memorial Day, Reagan reluctantly and belatedly committed the U.S. to abiding by the unratified 1979 SALT II agreement, as well as the expired 1972 SALT I accord on offensive weapons, as long as the Soviets do the same. He had been persuaded, primarily by his military advisers, that in the absence of the SALT limits, Moscow could proliferate its warheads much more quickly than the U.S. could take either offensive or defensive countermeasures. In an interview with TIME last month, Brezhnev's chief spokesman Leonid...