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...squeeze tactic could cause I more problems than it solves. Says one I U.S. State Department expert: "Of all ithe approaches to conquer the Poles, that has to be one of the most ludicrous. All it will do is make the Poles even more angry. It will increase the chances of having them declare a civil war." Provoking Poland's economic demise could also hurt other East bloc nations, whose economies are closely interlocked. Because of military reasons, the Warsaw Pact nations also do not want Poland to plunge into chaos; the country occupies a strategic position...
...those who can inflict the most," said MacSwiney, "but those who can suffer the most who will conquer." British authorities, for their part, are convinced the Irish cannot continue indefinitely to sacrifice their young. "They just can't keep it up," says Humphrey Atkins, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a man who sounds as dogged as the H-blockers...
Dragonslayer, though technically impressive, is not a very ambitious movie. Robbins sticks close to the traditional outline of heroic deeds interwoven with improbably convenient love. Ulrich, an over-the-hill sorcerer who still wonders why he could never turn lead into gold, sends his young apprentice, Galen, to conquer the dragon. Galen befriends a pretty young woman who wears men's clothing. Once she gets her wardrobe sorted out, he faces his enemy, fortified by his own bravery and a bit of old-fashioned hocus-pocus...
Mount Rainier, a dormant volcano about 55 miles north of Mount St. Helens, is a favorite objective of amateur climbers. But the mountain has claimed the lives of at least 66 climbers since it was first conquered in 1870. Lou Whittaker, one of the organizers of last week's ill-fated expedition, is a veteran climber whose twin brother Jim was the first American to conquer Mount Everest...
...Taiwan government, which still has influential friends in the Reagan White House and on Capitol Hill, saw Haig's visit in another light. Taipei contends that China is using its ties with the U.S. only to conquer short-term difficulties and that the two countries are bound to turn hostile again. And if Washington sells Peking any arms, the Taiwanese warn, beware the long-range consequences. C.J. Chen, director of the North American affairs section of the foreign ministry in Taipei, put it succinctly by quoting a Chinese proverb: " 'If you feed a tiger, sooner or later...