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The question shot to the forefront of national political debate this summer, when Shimon Peres, the Foreign Minister and Labor Party leader, sought early elections over the unrelated issue of an international peace conference on the Middle East. The ultra-Orthodox Shas Party, which has only four Knesset seats, seized...
Kinnock denied that Labor would "jettison our commitments" or that the party was "retreating or pandering to yuppies." Instead, he argued that the new tilt was a concession to "social realities." When a worker earns $600 a week, owns his own house, car and a vacation retreat in Spain, the...
Service and maintenance workers at Cornell University continue to work without a wage settlement after the university rejected the union's first concession during negotiations on Thursday.
The Reagan Administration hoped to break the impasse by abandoning plans to replace the Pershing IAs with more up-to-date launchers. But last week Soviet officials declared this solution unacceptable. The Soviets have also spurned an offer for "accelerated obsolescence" of the Pershing IAs that would allow them to...
The agreement was worked out during three weeks of secret talks between New Delhi and Colombo. Its centerpiece was Jayewardene's concession of local rule in two provinces heavily populated by Tamils, who make up one-eighth of the country's 16 million people. In exchange Gandhi, whose country is...