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...lifted in April 1981 the partial embargo on grain sales that had been initiated by Jimmy Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he also abruptly cut off talks for a new, multiyear grain deal with Moscow after martial law was imposed in Poland last December. Since the military crackdown in Poland is still in effect and European allies are squawking about U.S. opposition to helping build the Soviet natural gas pipeline, Reagan could hardly strike a long-term grain pact with the Soviet Union at this time...
...dusk-to-dawn curfew, leaving the city center a ghost town. Blocks of shops in the downtown area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most pro-Western and pro-capitalist countries. All told, at least 129 Kenyans were dead and an additional 100 missing last week after the suppression of a bizarre coup that, though it failed, cracked the veneer of Kenyan stability...
...Attorney Joseph Russoniello denied that the string of prosecutions represents a crackdown specifically against Japanese companies. Russoniello acknowledged, however, that he expects the cases to act as warnings to foreign firms everywhere. Said he: "It's fairly safe to say that a signal is being sent out by the Administration to all persons who do business with the United States that there are rules, and that failure to comply with the rules and to obey American laws may result in prosecution...
Because tens of thousands of rank-and-file members turned in their cards after the crackdown, party cells have ceased to function in many places...
...linking the sanctions to conditions in Poland, the U.S. is in the awkward position of relying on the Poles and their Soviet mentors to make possible a healing of the split in NATO. Some Western European governments, however, are exploring another possible compromise: a crackdown on loans to the Soviet bloc, in return for a partial lifting of the pipeline-equipment ban. The U.S. had tried to win such a promise at last month's Versailles summit. West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt last week discussed with Dutch Prime Minister Andreas van Agt the credit restrictions they might impose...