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...after day, the rhetoric grew shriller. TASS, the Soviet news agency, fired barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs...
...There are parts where it's so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles," John P. Reardon '60, director of Athletics, said Thursday. He also questioned the weakening stadium's ability to hold large crowds, saying it "was really packed last year for the Yale Game, and I was glad when it was over that everyone was safe...
...What shall be the deciding factor, religious law or secular law?" asked the Labor Party's Yaakov Tzur in the Knesset, raising the larger question before the Begin government. Education and Culture Minister Zevulun Hammer, an NRP leader who is not opposed to the Old City excavation, equivocated in his reply, reflecting the government's dilemma. "We must follow the law of the state," he said, "keeping in mind the respect we must have for the halacha [religious...
...Maxim freeze-dried instant coffee, which was named to trade on the reputation of Maxwell House instant coffee, stole millions of dollars in sales from the older product. Other attempts at brand extension fail because the gap between the old and the new items is too wide. Arm & Hammer, for example, unsuccessfully tried to stretch its baking-soda name to include an underarm deodorant. The company is still trying, however. It has put its name on new deodorants for carpets and cat litter...
...able to start manufacturing two or three small nuclear weapons within a year. Despite that, not all of the committee's Cabinet-level members were in favor of a pre-emptive raid. Among those opposed were Deputy Prime Minister Yigael Yadin, Interior Minister Yosef Burg and Education Minister Zevulun Hammer, who felt that the attack would damage relations with the U.S. But Begin prevailed with the support of such Israeli hawks as Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon and Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. In October 1980, the raid plan was given the go-ahead. Thereafter, Begin took complete personal control...