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Like most Poles, he believes that the only thing martial law accomplished was to crush Solidarity. In his village it was hard to see any evidence of a "state of war," Jaruzelski's term for martial law. Says Miroslaw: "Here you do not really sense martial law. We did not have tanks or soldiers warming themselves by roadside fires. And a curfew in a village is ridiculous. Who could enforce...
That would be welcome news in some quarters. Bankers, for example, now view the prospect of a break in prices with the same horror that they once reserved for ever rising energy costs. A steep price drop could crush an ailing oil exporter like Mexico, which has borrowed billions from international banks and is already in the midst of an economic crisis. Sharply lower prices would also bankrupt some existing high-cost exploration and production ventures...
...invites the girl (Katherine Healy) to the party, and it turns out that she is not a waif at all but the daughter of America's cosmetics queen (Mary Tyler Moore). The mother makes him an offer. If he gives her twelve-year-old, who has developed a crush on him, a meaningful role in his campaign, she will make a big contribution. He is soon persuaded: the girl is dying of leukemia and has only a few-guess how many-weeks to live...
Opponents of the amendment, including lobbyists for beverage interests, claim the measures would create incentive for students to litter and throw away bottles and cans rather than return them, in order to contribute to the scholarship fund. One lobbyist proposed that bumper stickers be printed reading "Smash that bottle, crush that can. Go to college as cheap as you can." These critics would seem to overlook the plight of the average college student, whose most immediate concern is the nickle in his pocket--not some fund far down the road...
...husk. In Andropov's case, the husk is considerable: a 15-year hitch as head of the most powerful secret police in the world, a three-year term as Soviet Ambassador to Hungary, where he may or may not have acquired his penchant for furniture, but did help crush a revolution; membership in the inner circle that decided Czechoslovakia deserved an invasion in 1968. He has also been a longtime quasher of dissidents, and was eager to remove civil liberties from Poland. Noteworthy as such information is, none of it has the exhilarating effect of making one suspect...