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Gromyko's surprising acceptance came after a yearlong effort by some members of the Administration to soften Reagan's confrontational approach. On Jan. 16, Reagan offered an olive branch to the Soviet Union in the form of a conciliatory foreign policy address. A few days later, Secretary of State George Shultz met with Gromyko in Stockholm to feel out the Soviets' receptivity to a more flexible strategic missile-limitation plan. The meeting was unproductive. Worse still, the Kremlin kept up a steady drumbeat of harsh anti-Reagan rhetoric...
...What we want to show is that Harvard students stand in solidarity with the workers and students against apartheid," said Thomas N. Creat '86, president of the Harvard branch...
...Prime Minister Robert Mugabe's sternest critics. After ten months of confinement at a detention center, the diminutive bishop had his prayers answered last week when, at the recommendation of a review tribunal, Mugabe agreed to his release. Muzorewa, who is head of the Zimbabwe branch of the U.S.-based United Methodist Church, leader of the United African National Council and a Member of Parliament, was Prime Minister of the country for six months before independence in April...
...abandon political activism. Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, the union's regional chairman for Lower Silesia from 1980 to 1981, disappeared for three days immediately following his release from prison. After resurfacing, he announced that he had been secretly conferring on future strategy with Zbigniew Bujak, Solidarity's fugitive Mazowsze branch leader. Possibly to hinder such activities, authorities last week detained Frasyniuk and Jozef Pinior, another former local union official, immediately after they laid flowers before a Solidarity commemorative plaque in Wroclaw. The pair were sentenced to two months' detention for disturbing public order. Dozens of others were briefly arrested...
...party has for decades been fundamentally split. The division has been partly ideological, but to an even greater extent cultural, regional and social. One branch has been dominated by a right-wing populist strand, predominantly Western, rural and Main Street, whose antecedents stretch back to the isolationists and McCarthyites. This wing has often vehemently opposed the G.O.P.'s so-called Eastern Establishment, whose members are associated with Wall Street and country clubs; their views tend to be more sympathetic to Big Business, internationalism and political pragmatism. The bitterness peaked at the 1964 G.O.P. convention, when the conservative followers...