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...creation of a KGB directorate to control political, nationalist and religious dissent. The directorate has achieved results without great social disruption, something that Andropov's conservative comrades on the Politburo clearly value. The democratic movement within the Soviet Union that first surfaced in the 1960s and gained impetus from the 1975 Helsinki Conference on Human Rights has been all but crushed. Punishment for dissent has been selectively tailored for the dissidents: some are expelled, as outspoken Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn was in 1974; others, like Nobel Peace Prizewinner Andrei Sakharov, are sent into internal exile; still others?like Sergei Batovrin, spokesman...
High unemployment rates are certainly the main reason why states and municipalities are competing so hard for new businesses [Sept. 6]. Another impetus is the changing nature of the job market. Many of those laid off from heavy-industry jobs will never return to the same positions. Today most available work requires technical skills. The race in the '80s and '90s will be to attract the high-technology companies. The winners will be areas like Indiana that are training skilled workers and fostering a climate for new ideas...
...they simply been careless about giving the bloodthirsty militiamen a chance to run amuck? Whatever the answer, the government of Menachem Begin had a lot of explaining to do. It may eventually have a lot to regret too, for the Beirut bloodbath could very well provide powerful impetus to the Palestinian drive for a homeland...
Israeli Prime Ministers David Ben-Gurion and Golda Meir belonged to the mainstream of Zionism that took its impetus from socialist idealism. By contrast, Begin grew up on the teachings of Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Zionist "revisionist" who advocated a militant posture of self-defense for Jews. Begin joined Jabotinsky's paramilitary youth organization in Poland at the age of 15, and the experience was to shape his entire life. "A new specimen of human being was born," he wrote in his memoirs of those days, "a specimen completely unknown to the world for over 1,800 years, the fighting...
...City on what has become the legally recognized holiday of Labor Day. This latest celebration of the industrial spirit, however, could not obscure the fact that the fortunes of organized labor have sunk to their lowest level in half a century. The Great Depression in the 1930s was the impetus for the greatest push toward unionization in American history, but the economic crisis of the 1980s threatens to undermine the organized labor movement...