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...into a lot of hostility from Harvard students and I'm afraid it might erupt at GLAD." Leslie Gladsjo '84, co-chairman of Gays Organized in Opposition to Discrimination (GOOD), said yesterday, adding that she had been threatened earlier this week while putting up posters publicizing GLAD...
What the two men did not do, however, was resolve other volatile issues that could at any moment erupt into a new wave of labor upheavals. In Radom the local Solidarity chapter was threatening strikes at 340 factories. In Poznan 490 farm delegates gathered from all over the country to join forces in a 2 million-member organization that was loudly demanding legal status as an independent agricultural union. In Warsaw and other centers, union members and their advisers claimed that they were being subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw...
Saying that the economic backgrounds of students do not predict whether violence will erupt, Willie cites the conflicts over desegregation in Mobile, Ala., as an example of affluent whites becoming violent. He adds that the legal system had too long protected them from desegregation efforts...
...Congress balks at cutting spending as deeply as the incoming Administration will propose, disagreements among Reagan's advisers that are already rumbling below the surface could erupt into a public battle. One group argues that taxes can be slashed no faster than spending; the implication is that, if Congress rejects some of Reagan's budget cuts, the tax reductions will have to be scaled back too. During his confirmation hearing last week, Secretary of the Treasury-designate Donald Regan placed a higher priority on reducing spending than on cutting taxes. He said that trimming the budget and controlling...
Neither side really wanted to see the squabble erupt into open battle. One reason is that the Arab world is deeply fragmented as a result of the war between Iraq and Iran. The open support of Jordan and the tacit backing of Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for Syria's archenemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has left Syria feeling isolated and threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with...