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Between direct payments from governments for some projects, grants from the Ford Foundation and other organizations, and donations from AID and the United Nations Development Project--with the last two forming the bulk of the HIID budget--funds are "sufficiently diversified to avert disaster," Perkins says...
...will take more than domestic cooperation to set the Polish economy right. Saddled with a $27 billion foreign debt and crippled by falling production, the country is on the verge of economic collapse. In an effort to avert a financial catastrophe, representatives of Poland's major Western government creditors-including West Germany, France and the U.S.-are scheduled to meet with Polish representatives in Paris to discuss a possible deferment of the $4.4 billion that Warsaw owes them this year. The decision of those governmental creditors will probably determine the attitude of the 350 commercial banks to which Poland...
With the official negotiations apparently bogged down, mediation efforts got under way behind the scenes to avert an explosive showdown. Jaruzelski met with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, to enlist his help. Church officials and intellectuals reportedly proposed a compromise plan: to turn over the Bydgoszcz investigation to a special parliamentary committee and to grant the farmers a "chamber of agriculture" rather than a union. The remaining demands would be shelved until the crisis passed. The party leadership reportedly rejected the proposal...
...floor. But that trend may be ending, especially in the auto, steel and rubber industries. Workers at Chrysler have already had to make wage concessions as part of the Government's rescue program. Workers at Ford and General Motors may soon have to follow suit in order to avert job losses...
...either silently acquiesced to the military's plans or have been vocally supportive of them. When one considers that 50 per cent of our nation's scientists are engaged in military-related research it becomes clear that material concerns have long since replaced moral ones. If we are to avert the grim consequences of our present uncontrolled arms race, many more scientists must join Professor Chaisson in speaking out against this madness...