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...attempt to lure out of hiding the 60 to 80 Solidarity activists who went underground when martial law was declared, the government promised not to prosecute any activists who turned themselves in before Oct. 31. But Zbigniew Bujak, former director of Solidarity's Warsaw branch, declared that the union's leadership would wait for a full, unconditional amnesty. Former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who was released from detention last November, said that the government's new measures were worse than martial law and would only "dig a wider gulf between the government and the governed...
over terminal screens and pore over mounds of studies for up to 16 hours each day. Their mission: to advance Japan one giant step in the world of computers, creating new ultrahigh-speed machines dedicated to that branch of computer science known as artificial intelligence...
Sheik Isa's main worry centers on a religious schism within his people. The royal family, along with most of the nation's decision makers, are Sunni Muslims, but some 60% of the country, including most of the poor, belong to the Shi'ite branch of Islam. Bahrain thus is an inviting target for an Islamic revolution imported from Iran, where the Shi'ites are dominant. The island in fact was part of Persia until Sheik Isa's ancestors, who came from Qatar, drove out the Persians in 1783. Since the revolution that brought Ayatullah...
...often does so with boldness. This term the court ruled forcefully in an unusually large number of major cases, most notably by striking down Congress's asserted right to exercise a legislative veto of Executive Branch actions. Conservatives enthusiastically applauded rulings that strengthened the search-and-seizure powers of law-enforcement officials and that permitted parents in Minnesota to take tax deductions for the costs of educating their children in religious schools. Liberals were equally pleased by reaffirmations of the 1973 freedom-of-choice abortion decision and the denial of tax-exempt status to private schools that practice racial...
Other companies have found a wide variety of operations that can be done better underground. For H&R Block, the caves are a safe place to keep tons of tax forms. The U.S. Postal Service's Philatelic Order Fulfillment Branch, with 48 employees, processes 1,200 requests daily from its hole in the ground. It likes the security advantages and the fact that in the low-humidity atmosphere the $100 million worth of stamps it keeps there do not stick together...