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...scheduled payments on the staggering $27 billion debt that it owes Western governments and banks and technically went into default. Moreover, the Poles urgently need as much as $4 billion in new loans merely to keep up with interest on their current debt and pay for vital imports, including grain, oil and iron...
...urban shelter issues and peace activities, concerns which led him to volunteer at a Catholic Worker soup kitchen in the south End and take a half-time draft counseling job at the Pax Christi Center on Conscience and War. "I think the values that led me, partly against my grain, to take some stand against abortion are the same values that led me to say there's something wrong with the city when its supposed development depends on forcing poor people into the streets," he explains. "And there's something wrong with deciding that our national definition of freedom...
...during the Afghanistan incident may have been greater than reports at the time indicated. "He recommended most of the measures the president took after the intervention into Afghanistan," says the official, who asked not to be identified. These measures included the boycott of the Olympic Games in Moscow, a grain embargo, and restrictions on exports of high technology...
...navigation equipment, radiation measurement devices and spare parts for a fertilizer factory. But the incident pointed up the confusion surrounding the policy on American exports to the Soviet Union, which were virtually halted after the invasion of Afghanistan 17 months ago. Although the embargo of the shipment of grain and phosphates was lifted in April, the ban on the export of high-technology goods remains theoretically in force. The American action has cut off the sale of about $150 million in exports, primarily of computers, to the Soviets...
...Reagan White House is now trying to clarify its own rules. It has ordered the FBI and the CIA to step up enforcement activities, and a high-level review of the embargo is under way. The Administration has also warned American exporters that lifting the grain embargo should not be considered a precedent for ending the high-technology...