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...sale to Taiwan. Said one State Department official: "We get a ding a day from the Chinese." At week's end there were rumors of a compromise but no confirmation. In a Washington speech last week, Reagan once more declared ringingly that "the American people will not accept martial law [in Poland]. They demand that Lech Walesa and the political prisoners of Solidarity be set free." But the Administration is still unable to win allied cooperation in any measures that would really punish Moscow for its role in the Polish repression...
Last week's accord, though, did not clear the path to resolving fully the lingering Polish debt crisis. The U.S. and its NATO allies have said that they will not consider rescheduling the $2.2 billion owed to Western governments unless Poland eases the martial law that was imposed on the country last Dec. 13. The hard-line Western stand effectively bars banks from seeking a separate agreement...
...bicoastal trio stubbornly cling to their surplus pounds. They skip yoga ("Imagine you're a pink cloud," urges the teacher). They miss pool exercises, which involve strenuous efforts to drown plastic balls by pushing them "down ... aaand down .. . aaand harder, again!" During Shintaido, an unlikely hybrid of martial arts and modern dance that starts with an excruciating series of froglike hops, the trio sit in the lobby complaining. They are wondering about flights to Las Vegas when Karma Kientzler finds them...
...Since martial law was proclaimed last December, Walesa's walrus mustache has been engulfed by a full beard, which he promised his wife he would shave off when he was allowed to resume a normal life. Otherwise, she has been telling friends, he has suffered no ill effects except for occasional insomnia. He keeps busy by reading and, to Danuta's distress, continues to smoke heavily. The lack of activity has given him a bit of a paunch...
...holding the Administration accountable on it own terms, the need for apology emerges as overwhelming. The call for a balanced budget has evolved into the largest deficit in history. The determination to counter Soviet power has eroded into lukewarm sanctions in response to the Polish martial law regime. The insistence on a strong Israel and the carrying out of the Camp David accords has failed to avert flirtations with autocratic Arab regimes and failed to prompt a U.S.-led initiative for negotiations on Palestinian autonomy...