Word: auge
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Reagan advisers in the Office of Policy Development drew up the severe new proposal for review by governmental agencies in May. Its announced purpose:to serve as a position paper for a United Nations conference on population that begins in Mexico City on Aug. 6. The draft policy, however, seems primarily aimed at the Republican Convention in Dallas, which opens two weeks later. Reagan's pro-life supporters have long been lobbying the President for strong action against abortion...
Italy's big loser was Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, whose Socialist Party lost .2% from its 11.4% score in 1983. Craxi in effect had won the Prime Minister's job last Aug. 4 by threatening to force new elections on the reluctant Christian Democrats, who feared a further setback. Now such pressure may not have the same effect: Craxi's days in power could be numbered if the Christian Democrats decide to bring him down. The decline of smaller center groups left the Christian Democrats and the Communists, known in Italy as the "two whales," to continue...
...Soviet Union has had no strong direction from the top. As Brezhnev's health deteriorated, decision making was virtually paralyzed. His successor, Andropov, began his tenure by projecting a forceful image, particularly in cracking down on corruption, absenteeism and economic inefficiency. But soon he too was mortally ill; from Aug. 18, 1983, until his death last February, he was not seen in public. Again, decisions were postponed as his colleagues waited and presumably maneuvered for position...
...knocked out a German machine gun. When he found it, he cried, "That is why I came, that is why I came." William K. Van Hoy, 62, a retired postman from Milwaukee, Ore., wanted to show his son the place near St.-Malo where he was wounded on Aug...
...advice of Secretary of State George Shultz and other advisers, Reagan dampened his tough talk for much of 1983. Then came the downing of the Korean airliner on Aug. 31. In a speech to the United Nations General Assembly one month later, Reagan said that the incident was a "reminder of just how different the Soviets' concept of truth and international cooperation is from that of the rest of the world...