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On Wednesday, Soviet diplomats threatened to move unilaterally. Charge Oleg Sokolov telephoned Assistant Secretary of State Richard Burt to announce that he was scheduling a press conference that afternoon, after which Andrei would depart Washington. As a "big concession from Moscow," he added, Burt could attend. The U.S. diplomat replied...
For Hammer, striking deals with Communist nations is nearly instinctive by now. He made his first trip to the Soviet Union in 1921 to help out during a typhoid epidemic. By 1925 Hammer had won a Soviet concession to manufacture writing implements. According to one source, his plant produced 72...
Its central axiom is that if one burrows deep enough beneath the Mao jacket, the shapka or the chador, one discovers that people everywhere are essentially the same. American Anthropologist Samantha Smith was invited to Moscow by Yuri Andropov for firsthand confirmation of just that proposition (a rare Soviet concession...
Japanese firms will end talks suddenly when they see trouble ahead. Last May, executives of Nippon Kokan K.K., Japan's second largest steelmaker, halted negotiations to buy Ford's Rouge Steel Co., mainly because it could not reach a labor-concession agreement with the United Auto Workers. "What...
The rebel offensive began with a series of attacks on P.L.O. positions in Lebanon, particularly those near the Beirut-Damascus highway. From Tripoli, on the northern Lebanese coast, Arafat issued a statement explicitly accusing the Syrians of helping the rebels. Syria promptly dismissed Arafat's charges as "lies" and...