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...trouble began about a month ago, when John Shirley, a United States Information Agency official and Yale alum, asked the Glee Club to participate in a USIA broadcast for Voice of America radio Aired December 13, the program will mark the first anniversary of the Soviet crackdown in Poland, the move which eventually destroyed the labor union Solidarity and squelched the freedom of the Polish people...
...contractors is probably just a reaction to the fading public faith in the new arms race. Both the President and his military advisors rely on polls, and the ten-year low in Americans who want a buildup has surely affected policy decisions. And, as one contractor complained, the crackdown on wastefulness actually seems to be a ploy to regain support for the overall escalation: "The Administration is out to show that it's being tough with us so it can keep public acceptance of its big military budgets...
...hundreds of hours of community service. Meanwhile, Selective Service officials said compliance was rising quickly. Before the indictments began, they estimated that more than 700,000 men--seven percent of all required--had failed to comply with the law. With the wave of publicity from the summer crackdown, and with some statistical legerdemain, the noncompliance figure is now officially under 500,000--maybe less than 5 percent...
...Reagan Administration's posture of protesting the crackdown in Poland but remaining virtually silent on the human rights violations in the Soviet Union risks sending the wrong signal. It implies that the United States is only selectively concerned with human rights, thus putting no pressure on the Soviet Union to liberalize at home. Only loud protest by American citizens can spur the Reagan Administration to speak out. Tonight, at Holyoke Center, that protest can begin...
...industrial state of Hesse. A loose confederation built around environmentalist groups, the Greens include organizations that are vociferously opposed to all forms of atomic power in West Germany and to the presence of U.S. nuclear warheads on local soil. The Greens fear that Zimmermann's appointment presages a crackdown on the massive antinuclear demonstrations that have blossomed across the country in the past year. Green Spokesman Lucas Beckmann last week called Zimmermann's appointment "a scandal...