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...will continue to inhibit such expansion. Although the country had a trade surplus of $13 billion last year, $10 billion of that amount had to be earmarked as the annual interest due on the debt. Nonetheless Neves said that he is opposed to the suggestion that Brazil declare a moratorium on its international debts repayments. Said he: "We must pay what we owe. It is a debt of honor for the nation...
...precondition for new talks, but Gromyko made no such demand last week. Shultz did not even have to defend the U.S. plan to begin testing an ASAT system this spring. Gromyko had been expected to repeat a Soviet demand of last summer that any new negotiations begin with a moratorium on antisatellite tests, but according to U.S. briefers, he never mentioned the subject...
...weapons would in effect consist of a series of American lectures on the virtues of having "each side turn to greater reliance on defensive systems that don't threaten anyone," in the words of a senior Administration official. The White House also ruled out any thought of offering a moratorium on testing of antisatellite weapons as a concession to get bargaining started. A moratorium might eventually be negotiated, said Administration briefers, only as part of a "package deal...
These days it takes a botched or otherwise unusual execution to grab public attention. Executions have become so frequent they are usually relegated to a couple of column inches on the inside pages of morning newspapers. From the end of the de facto ten-year moratorium on capital punishment in 1977 through last year, only eleven Americans were put to death legally. Stephens' execution last week, however, was the 20th this year. Not since 1963 have the states executed so many people. Next year the rate of executions seems sure to quicken, perhaps to one a week: by most...
...Massachusetts state legislature, Superior Court Judge Paul Garrity decided enough was enough. Last week the judge took drastic steps to force the legislature to clean up polluted, malodorous Boston Harbor or risk ending a $500 million-a-year building boom in the Boston metropolitan area. Garrity declared a moratorium on almost all new developments that would be connected to the ancient sewer system that serves Boston and 42 other cities and towns. The order covers all building applications dating back to June...