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...modified version of the Chinese plan that would lease marginal land from state and collective farm holdings to enterprising homesteaders and organize farm workers into family brigades. In his speech to the June plenum of the Central Committee, he praised such contract teams, citing a family in the Brest region of Belorussia that managed to increase milk yields per cow from 2,917 kilograms to 5,580 kilograms in only two years. But so far the Kremlin cannot point to well-stocked supermarket shelves as a positive result of perestroika policies...
...judge cannot avoid drawing on historical context and past judicial decisions when ruling on the meaning of a Constitutional passage, said Paul Brest, professor of clinical legal education at Stanford. Otherwise, the judge would be ignoring "the moderating forces of evolution" that acted on the original text. For example, the forces of time caused the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment to protect all minorities and women instead of just Blacks, said Brest...
Foreign Ministry spokesmen refused to link the latest expulsions specifically with the arrest of Bernard Sourisseau, who is alleged to have made regular trips to the Atlantic ports of Lorient and Brest to observe French naval movements. But wellplaced sources indicated the cases were linked...
Authorities said the 44-year-old former helicopter mechanic also reported on movements at the naval base at Ile Longue, near Brest, home of France's nuclear missile carrying submarines...
Soviet interest in the Brest-Lorient region in northwestern France was cited in November 1983 by Brest Mayor Jacques Berthelot. He suspended a friendship agreement with the city of Tallinn in Estonia, saying Brest was becoming a key point for Soviet spying...