Word: layed
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Last week ASEAN foreign ministers met to lay the groundwork for another "informal meeting" in Jakarta that will bring together the Kampuchean government, some if not all of the rebel factions, China, Viet Nam and Thailand. The object is to set up a formal peace parley aimed at devising a government power-sharing formula, nailing down a Vietnamese withdrawal timetable and establishing international monitoring of the peace...
Fear of the Khmer Rouge still rules much of the Kampuchean countryside, where the rebel fighters battle the improving army of the People's Republic. Around Chhun Kiri, 65 miles southwest of Phnom Penh, the Khmer Rouge has stepped up its "war of the villages." At a nearby hospital lay Pen Kea, 40, his leg injured in a guerrilla attack. "The Khmer Rouge comes every three nights," he said. "You have got to be afraid of them...
...figures came out, a Japanese official warned the U.S. against weakening the dollar as a trade-gap remedy. Makoto Utsumi, a senior executive in the Finance Ministry, declared that a further fall of the dollar against the yen would not close the trade gap because Japanese firms would lay off workers and take other steps to remain competitive. A cheaper dollar, said Utsumi, would simply "make America for sale...
...timetable for introducing trade-union pluralism should be reached at "round- table talks" that include the government, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and other groups. Jaruzelski left little doubt that his new approach to Solidarity was motivated by the realization that his only hope for revitalizing the Polish economy lay in enlisting the cooperation of the country's disaffected workers. It is also a tacit acknowledgment that both Jaruzelski's economic policies and his efforts to stifle Walesa and Solidarity have failed. When the general was asked if he would be willing to meet with Walesa, whom he interned...
Last month a life-and-death moral crisis in Jerusalem showed the dehumanizing gulf that has formed between the two sides. An elderly Arab man lay dying from an Israeli bullet. In a hospital across town, an elderly Jewish man lay dying for lack of a functional heart. A transplant could have saved his life. The Jewish family asked, the Arab family refused. Both men died...