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Although the Administration is aware of that scenario, it contends that both sides may continue to observe what Shultz called "a de facto form of mutual restraint." Nevertheless, Reagan maintains that only a dramatic change in Soviet behavior would cause him to alter his new stand. Could a significant turnaround in Soviet policy actually be on the horizon? "We do not expect that," says a U.S. official. "Not in compliance, not in modernization, not in negotiation...
...organization expressed concern at Botha's mention of new laws, saying, "The government is going to broaden the already Draconian provisions of the Internal Security Act. The effect of this is that a de facto state of emergency will exist throughout our country...
Gorbachev has used propaganda organs to build public support before he strikes. In December, Vladimir Promyslov, the de facto mayor of Moscow for 22 years, was forced to resign after the newspaper Sovietskaya Rossiya ran a series of exposes on corruption in the local housing-construction industry. The same articles brought down Viktor Grishin, who was stripped of his job as head of the Moscow city party committee...
...Dominguez returned from a year's leave of absence. Dominguez was assigned to co-teach a seminar on comparative politics--the only course, students and department officials agree, which is designed to prepare graduate students for their general exams in the popular field. Students call the course "de facto required," though it is not specifically mandated to earn a degree...
...course, Government 2105, "Field Seminar in Comparative Politics," is the only such offering designed to prepare students to take their general exams in the popular field. Students say that makes the course "de facto required...