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...step toward the "historic compromise" that Italy's Communists have long dreamed of-a coalition government that could lead to all-out Communist control? Or was it merely a temporary liaison-a "seaside compromise," as some Italians were calling...
...solution: detecting and countering the efforts of foreign intelligence agents to acquire U.S. secrets. The weakness stems in part from a shake-up in which veteran counterspies were replaced. The shifts took place before Turner arrived, but Knoche believes such work requires a periodic turnover of agents who will go all-out for a time and then take on other duties. Explains Knoche: "The work by its nature-where you constantly have to build negative or paranoid assumptions-can almost guarantee a form of illness...
Harvard's personnel relations department has been waging an all-out campaign to defeat the union in the upcoming election on June 29, and quite likely will not admit defeat even if, as seems likely, District 65 earns the right to represent the Med Area workers. University officials admit that they have not ruled out the possibility of challenging any possible union victory in federal court--thus ensuring perhaps another year or so of costly, senseless legal bickering that will benefit neither Harvard, its employees, nor the students...
...client on the Horn of Africa. Too many gestures of friendship to Mengistu are bound to alienate Somalia, which Russia also supplies and which is being wooed out of the Russian orbit by promises of economic aid from Saudi Arabia. Apparently unbothered by such strategic complications, Mengistu is planning an all-out assault on Eritrea, led by a people's militia of 200,000 peasants equipped with cast-off American arms and trained-if that is the word -by a small cadre of Cuban advisers. They hope to whip enough "volunteers" into fighting trim to begin marching north...
...calm is deceptive: lobbyists are already mapping an all-out push when congressional debates begin in earnest in a few weeks. "The battle lines are forming," says an official of a Washington-based energy trade association. "It's just a question of who lobs the first grenade. Everyone hopes someone else will." Adds a gas industry lobbyist: "We're geared for our normal congressional blitz...