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Three conservative Republican Senators from the region, Reagan's friend Paul Laxalt of Nevada and Orrin Hatch and Jake Garn of Utah, have come out against the plan?so have leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon Church), an especially powerful force in Utah. In addition, Weinberger reportedly is concerned that the Soviets, unless restrained by a new SALT agreement, could use the eight years it would take to complete the land-based MX system to deploy enough of their own intercontinental warheads to wipe out all 4,600 of the shelters...
Solidarity, meanwhile, must decide what it wants to become now that its existence is firmly established: a trade union or a de facto political party? Radicals in the membership are urging the latter, but Walesa has called for a return to pure unionism. Solidarity's first annual congress next month will seek to resolve these contradictory impulses...
...believe it is better to have a Socialist representative who, at the very least, will be heeded by a friendly government, than an outcast conservative. What is more, thanks to years of preaching from the Right, the French feel that the legislature should reflect the executive so that the latter can implement its policies as smoothly as possible...
Today, the Left's--and the nation's--euphoria is beginning to wear off. Slowly, the enormity of France's "new revolution" is being digested. Mitterand's decision to include four Communists in his new government, subtle gambit to diminish still further the power of the latter group, may backfire. And everyone realizes that the Socialists have been given a true mandate, with only themselves to blame in case of failure...
Work is a many-splendored thing. It can range from garbage collecting to paper shuffling, and even, after a recent ruling in Michigan, to sexual intercourse. Domenico Signorelli, 37, was engaged in the latter one spring night in Birmingham, England, when he was overcome by carbon monoxide from a space heater. He died ten days later; his companion, whom he had met on the job, recovered. Signorelli's widow collected $170,000 in life insurance, and there the matter might have ended had her husband committed his indiscretion back home. But since he had been sent abroad...