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...such move is liable to trigger harsh union reaction. In response to a relatively mild Kohl proposal for limiting public-sector wage increases, Monika Wulf-Mathies, leader of the country's 1 .2 million-member civil servants union, called the plan a "declaration of war," and threatened strike action if the proposal is carried out. Having long and patiently planned his parliamentary assault on the Chancellor's office, Kohl must now prepare for all the battles that his new job will entail...
...official news agency, declared that "unequal treaties forced upon the Chinese people provide an iron clad proof of British imperialism's plunder of Chinese territory. It is a sacred mission," the report added, "of the Chinese government and people to claim sovereignty over Hong Kong." But however mild, such control would mean an end to Hong Kong's special nature. "The Chinese have to admit," noted London's Financial Times, "that, in effect, they can not run Hong Kong because if they did, it would not be Hong Kong." Added a Chinese businessman in Hong Kong...
Then he stood up to leave. Sadat had suffered a mild heart attack a few years earlier and was careful about his health. He wanted to go to bed and to meet with me the next morning. I said I would delay suggesting my own proposals until he and Begin had a chance to explore their differences. Sadat replied, "I will try to protect you by putting forward good proposals, and make it unnecessary for any U.S. proposals to be offered...
When the residents of Montebello Poniente (pop 8,000) a suburb of San Salvador on the slopes of one of El Salvador s largest volcanoes, heard the rumblings shortly after dawn, they assumed that it was just another mild earthquake, the sort they had experienced many times before But then a boy ran down the town's main street knocking on doors and screaming: "The lava is coming, the lava is coming! He was wrong- the long-dormant volcano had not erupted-but the neighbors who heeded Ms warning were wise. Within minutes, an 8-ft-high wave...
Several students interviewed yesterday cited as a problem what they see as a wide disparity between stringent requirements for honors concentrators and mild requirements for non-honors concentrators...