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Finally, More than three years after he had accepted a teaching position at Harvard. Polish dissident scholar Stanislaw Baranczak arrived in Cambridge this week. Polish authorities last month granted him a passport after having rejected seven previous applications. "There was a rumor they would cancel all the flights," the 34-year-old poet said after arriving here. "Almost to the last minute we weren't sure if everything would go all right," he added. But they did, and Baranczak will likely begin teaching next fall as part of his three-year associate professorship...
...retrenchment came as no surprise to foreign companies that in the past month alone have had Peking cancel or suspend five major projects worth $2.5 billion. Most seriously affected are Japanese and West German firms that rushed into the Chinese market in 1978 and 1979, at the outset of Peking's ambitious drive for industrial expansion. Japanese companies, including Toyo Engineering K.K. and Mitsui Petrochemicals Co. Ltd., have lost $640 million worth of contracts to build seven turnkey petrochemical plants in Nanjing, Shengli and Peking. Of its five contracts for similar plants, Lurgi Gesellschaften, a Frankfurt-based engineering combine...
Stamas added that if the Collegium does decide to go to Lebanon the final acceptance will contain a provision allowing both the chorus and the Lebanese government to cancel the visit if sudden violence occurs in the area...
...which eventually produced legislation requiring ETS to release corrected copies of SAT's. But he makes only cursory mention of the testing company's main argument: that the cost of writing new questions every year instead of repeating the old ones would force the company to raise prices and cancel administrations of the test...
...induce restraint and, where possible, cooperation by the U.S.S.R. détente worked between 1969 and 1973, producing modest but tangible results in trade, arms control and emigration from the U.S.S.R. and occasionally some political accommodation as well. One small example: in 1972 the Kremlin leaders did not cancel a summit meeting with Richard Nixon, even though he had just ordered bombing raids on Haiphong harbor in which Soviet ships were damaged. Soviet intentions then were no more benign and altruistic than they are now. But the Kremlin was willing to play by a few limited rules in order...