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...drug is the first to halt bone hardening, which makes most victims of the disease under five feet tall and often causes psychological harm, Crowley said. Previous treatments with steroids could only halt sexual symptoms, he added...
...Jaruzelski's view, there was little choice but to impose martial law; he had to bring a halt to Solidarity's increasing demands. If the government failed to do so, he could see no way to stave off the final collapse of Poland's mismanaged, strike-hobbled economy. At the same time, he had to reassure the Soviets, who, no matter how reluctant they might be to intervene directly in Polish affairs, let it be known that they would do so if Solidarity was on the verge of seizing control of the state. Yet, by moving so forcefully against...
...government organization of Catholic laymen, was dissolved. Observed an American diplomat of Poland's military rulers: "They have pulled it off with stunning efficiency. But there is an irony here. What they have succeeded in doing is to shut Poland down, to bring it to a halt. The real challenge is just the opposite, to get the country moving again. And, as a result of what has happened, this will now be harder than ever to accomplish...
...Cambridge-based group recently passed the halfway mark in a drive to collect 25,000 signatures of local voters on a national petition calling for a bilateral halt on "all further testing, production, and deployment of nuclear weapons...
...union's suspicion that the proposed front was a facade erected by the government to control the labor movement. Solidarity was fierce in its denunciation of a bill the government plans to submit to the Polish parliament giving itself sweeping "essential powers." Those include the authority to halt public gatherings except for religious purposes, limit the right of travel inside and outside Poland and ban strikes at times of national emergency...