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...charge has a particular sting for Gandhi, who took direct responsibility for Punjab on May 11, after dismissing the moderate Sikh government there because of its failure to maintain order. Despite last week's events, however, the Prime Minister says he is still reluctant to use military force to curb terrorism in Punjab...
...Glass's kidnaping. Assad's dilemma: fighting the Beirut terrorists would, in effect, mean confronting their chief patron, Iran, which Damascus supports in its protracted war with Iraq. According to Israeli sources, when Syrian Army General Ghazi Kenaan led his troops into Beirut in February, he wanted to curb the power of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite group based in the Lebanese capital that is believed to hold most of the 24 foreign hostages, including nine Americans. But Tehran and Hizballah's spiritual leader, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, intervened, and the group agreed not to take any more captives...
...union membership has fallen by one-quarter, to 9 million, and strikes are at a 50- year low. The number of workdays lost to labor disputes has declined from 29.5 million in 1979 to a mere 1.9 million last year. In her third term Thatcher plans legislation to further curb the power of the unions...
...massacres in Rome and Vienna. For several weeks, however, Arafat has reportedly been contemplating a rapprochement with Abu Nidal in the name of Palestinian unity. "Politics is politics," said an Arafat aide in Tunis last week, confirming that a reconciliation was still under consideration, provided Abu Nidal agrees to curb his terrorist ways...
...representatives. Washington is naturally alarmed that the American aerospace industry, which generated a surplus of $12 billion in its overseas trade last year, could be damaged by unfair subsidies to a foreign competitor. The Administration is negotiating with the Europeans in an effort to persuade them to them to curb the Airbus subsidies. Said U.S. Trade Ambassador Michael Smith last week: "We want to defuse the tension...