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Once he graduates, the high-level functionary enters a separate social world. He will have his own preferred clubs (Polo de Bagatelle, Racing Club de France, Cercle Interallié) and discussion groups. One of the latter that is likely to rise in popularity is the moderate leftist Club Jean Moulin, named for France's great hero of the Resistance, a kind of open forum for discussion of advanced political ideas...
...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...
...address himself to the violations of human rights I detailed in my letter. Since writing it, I have learned that Long's attacker had been in a reeducation camp where he had been atrociously tortured. On 6 May, I had the occasion to meet members of a high-level Vietnamese delegation headed by Phan Anh, the head of the Legal Commission of the Naitonal Assembly. I brought up the case of my father's arrest for advocating the observance of human rights in Vietnam, and his subsequent death of starvation. One member of the delegation wished to let me know...
Just a "friendly visit." That was how the official Polish press described the sudden jaunt to Warsaw last week of a high-level Soviet delegation headed by hawkish Politburo Ideologue Mikhail Suslov. But friendship, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. For hard-lining Polish Politburo Members Stefan Olszowski and Tadeusz Grabski, who were on hand to greet their Soviet comrades at Okecie Airport, the handshakes must have felt fraternal indeed. For Warsaw's Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, who led the delegation, and who has shown a tenacious commitment to reform, Suslov's arrival may have...
...Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw police for three hours. Meanwhile, an ugly new outburst of anti-Semitic rhetoric was added to the apparent campaign to discredit the independent labor movement (see box). Faced with this array of potential flash points, Walesa and Jaruzelski agreed to resume their high-level dialogue possibly as soon as this week. As Walesa put it, "Let's talk before any fires spread...