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...quite exceptionally, they are forced by a threat of popular rebellion to sign an agreement with true representatives of the society, it does not guarantee that later they will feel obliged to honor their own commitments. On the contrary, they try to ignore the agreement, or at least to cheat their partner. The Western observers, excited about the August "social contract," fail to notice that not a single one of the agreements signed in Gdansk shipyard was fully observed by the government in the first year of Solidarity's existence. During that time Solidarity was reiterating earlier demands. The first...

Author: By Stanislaw Baranczak, | Title: Dangers the Poles Are Prepared For A Dissident's Explanation of Polish Resistance | 10/23/1981 | See Source »

Paul R. Mow Aiea, Hawaii I do not kill, rape, steal or cheat and try not to lie, but I do read Playboy and watch Three's Company. Does Falwell expect me to burn in hell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 19, 1981 | 10/19/1981 | See Source »

...Role of the Palestinians in the Autonomy Negotiations: They will have to decide what they want. We are not going to press them. We are going to create the atmosphere, a free one. I'm not trying to cheat anyone. I'd like to create an atmosphere where it is possible to talk without any fear-either of terrorist organizations or of the Israeli authorities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Starting Point for a Solution: General Ariel (Arik) Sharon | 10/5/1981 | See Source »

...ofter rewritten by someone else entirely. Morality was similarly skewed. In simple terms, his job was to protect good people from bad people--but since he was devoted to tracking down those who didn't play by the rules, he didn't have to either. He could lie, cheat, steal or blackmail--and as long as he did it skillfully enough not to be caught by either the authorities or his own supervisors, he was the better man. Finally, he could never become emotionally involved with a client, since, all the old movies aside, it usually ended up closer...

Author: By Thomas Hines, | Title: A Continental Op | 7/21/1981 | See Source »

...secret agreement with Iraq for keeping French personnel at the reactor site until 1989. Michel Pecqueur, head of the French Atomic Energy Commission, insisted that the continued French presence would make it "impossible" for Iraq to stockpile the material to manufacture atomic weapons. If the Iraqis did try to cheat, he said, France would have cut off further supplies of enriched uranium. Pecqueur granted that a "significant quantity" of plutonium could be obtained by irradiating uranium in the reactor, then extracting it in the Italian-built "hot cell," a laboratory designed for handling radioactive materials. But he maintained that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could Iraq Have Cheated? | 6/29/1981 | See Source »

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