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Caught off balance by mounting anger over its butterfingered handling of the affair, the government finally relented. The announcement of rationing, it said in a rare concession of fault, "testified to a lack of sufficient sensitivity to the public reception." More astonishing was what came next in the official communiqué: "The government apologizes to citizens, especially to women, for the trouble and anxiety." Looking for other ways to dampen the protests, Jaruzelski sacked Deputy Minister of Distribution and Services Edward Szymanski. Andrzej Bors, another deputy, was allowed to resign...
Senators on Aug. 18. Since then, Soviet pronouncements have been issued in the form of communiqués in Andropov's name or through the official Soviet news agency TASS. A further signal that Andropov may not be well came last month, when he postponed a scheduled trip to Bulgaria...
...enormous retrospective exhibition in Manhattan in 1980 made it possible for the first time to see the myriad elements of his work all together and in perspective. He had been dead seven years, but the Museum of Modern Art's splendid show was, as much as any battlefront communiqué, news...
...learned so often in its negotiations with the Begin government, there was still some fine print to be discussed. The Cabinet approved the agreement only in principle; in a terse communiqué issued after the meeting, the Israelis demanded "clarifications" on several issues. The crucial ones involved details of security arrangements in southern Lebanon and the fate of Major Saad Haddad, the former Lebanese army officer and longtime Israeli ally whose 1,000-to-2,000-man force has controlled the border area since 1978. Even some Cabinet members who voted for the accord were unhappy with the document...
...week's end, despite some signs of labor unrest, the conference participants had agreed in principle to a new, centralized wage-fixing system. Indeed, the majority signed a far-reaching 55-point communiqué pledging "to work together to meet the challenge of Australia's economic and social crisis." The summit had, it seemed, achieved the spirit, of cooperation that Hawke wanted. Noted Michelle Grattan, political writer for the Melbourne Age: "The breakthrough was in the vibes, not the decisions...