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...more, Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko indicated, the Soviets would do it again. Said he, at an international conference in Madrid: "Soviet territory, the borders of the Soviet Union are sacred. No matter who resorts to provocations of that kind, he should know that he will bear the full brunt of responsibility for it." Kirkpatrick had already given the U.S. response at the U.N.: "Straying off course is not recognized as a capital crime by civilized nations...
...staff, who nevertheless are bearing the brunt of the cutbacks. Never a flush organization, NPR can withstand some painful fiscal austerity, but the blows this crisis have dealt to the energy and enthusiasm that made the station what it has become, will be harder to repair. One former employee describes "a sense of real doom that NPR will never be the same again. That an era is over." The overwhelming listener support pledged in the fundraiser delivered a badly needed shot in the arm to the staff, but many are still disillusioned and angered by the events of the past...
...economically feasible for most of the group's members. In 1977 OPEC nations were pumping at a rate of 31.3 million bbl. a day. Now production has dropped to only about 14 million bbl., and in spite of that the market remains squishy. Saudi Arabia has taken the brunt of the cutbacks. Its production is currently only 3.3 million bbl. a day, roughly a third of its rate of 9.6 million bbl. a day in 1981. The keepers of the kingdom's finances are unwilling to go lower, or even remain this low for much longer...
...public dialogue up to this point has suggested that Black colleges will carry the brunt of the new NCAA regulations. The representatives of Black colleges and universities are right to object to the adoption of these rules because the implementation of these rules will assure that they cannot participate in NCAA competition in a meaningful way. Their exclusion, however, may have been incidental to those whose objective it was to reduce Black athletic participation in athletics generally, but most specifically at predominantly white colleges and universities. Meldon Hellis...
...this election, Texas was a district unto itself. With unemployment at 8.3%, higher than in Frost Belt states like Massachusetts and New Hampshire, Texans were feeling the brunt of a national economic downturn for the first time in more than two decades. Democrats came out in droves to help Populist Attorney General Mark White ambush Republican Governor Bill Clements. White roused the voters not only over the economy but also with the somewhat spurious charge that the Governor should be held accountable for high utility rates. The Texas G.O.P. took a "shellacking," said the defeated Clements...