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...advanced American fighter jets, despite warnings from the State Department that such a sale would threaten the delicate normalization of relations with China. As a result of the Polish crisis, however, the U.S. is sending a top-level delegation to Peking. TIME has learned that its mission is to inform the Chinese that the U.S. has decided to refrain from selling Taiwan any fighter jets more advanced or sophisticated than the F-5Es it currently has. At the same time, the U.S. will urge the Chinese to end their deafening silence about Soviet involvement in the Polish crackdown. State Department...
...poll of 20-to 24-year-olds by the newsmagazine L'Expresso, 21% believed that the Red Brigades were fighting for a better society, while 35% felt that the terrorists had the right ideals but were using the wrong means to achieve them. Only 27% said they would inform the authorities if they knew someone who was a terrorist...
...Students for Dukakis," who began organizing early this fall, have focused on calling registered Democrats to inform them about the February 6 caucuses, Gelfman said last week, noting that the state Democratic party will use open caucuses to elect delegates to the May 22 endorsing convention for the first time this year. "We're not looking beyond the caucuses yet," he added...
...later, it's clear how much the step improved life in Kabul. Candidate Ronald Reagan predicted as much, calling the sign-up a meaningless gesture and taking the debate one step further: "Perhaps the most fundamental objection to draft registration is moral." Last week, President Ronald Reagan regretted to inform us that military realities had forced him to break his promise on abolishing registration. He had new information from his blue-ribbon manpower task force: registration would save six weeks in a potential mobilization, rather than three to five days, as had once been assumed...
Another interrupted the meeting to inform the 30 people present, "I have a date--I have...