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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with the government." Those union-government talks currently under way concern a range of topics: the drafting of a new trade union law, the granting of radio and television time to Solidarity, and the continuing question of legalization for an independent farmers' union known...
...some other international forums are dominated by supposedly neutral nations that ritually criticize U.S. policies and reject U.S. sponsored initiatives. Pro-Western regimes in the Third World appear vulnerable to revolt and subversion. The U.S., and to a far greater extent its allies in Western Europe and Japan, depend for their very survival as economic powers on oil supplies from one of the most flammable regions on earth-the Arabian peninsula and the Persian Gulf...
...possible goal of U.S. policy in the ongoing peace talks would be a demilitarized West Bank, politically federated with Jordan (but with a large measure of local autonomy) and economically linked with Israel. Achieving that admittedly difficult goal would depend, of course, on getting Jordan's King Hussein to join the Egyptian-Israeli talks. Hussein so far has adamantly refused to do so. After the January summit of Islamic leaders in the Saudi Arabian city of Taif, the King once again insisted that the P.L.O. was the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people; nonetheless, he has never entirely...
...language and area-studies programs in high schools and colleges. However far removed this is sue may seem from the crisis of the mo ment in the Persian Gulf or Eastern Europe, the ability of the U.S. to deal with those regions ten or 20 years from now will depend hi part on the vigor of Arabic and Slavic studies around the country. A presidential commission correctly concluded hi 1979 that "American incompetence in foreign languages is nothing short of scandal ous and it is becoming worse." One so bering example: when a Soviet soldier hi Afghanistan briefly sought asylum...
...Military service should last two years, starting either at age 18 or upon graduation from high school. The number to be drafted each year would depend on the needs of the armed forces. At present those needs total 350,000 per year. While enlistments currently fulfill about 99% of the Army's quota, a draft would provide it with a more representative cross-section. The pool of males available in that age group is 2.1 million. Women would be exempt...