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...this week for an eight-day state visit, bringing with him a reputation as one of the East bloc's shrewdest leaders. Since 1970, when dock workers' strikes over high food prices brought him to the head of the ruling Polish United Workers' Party, Gierek has overseen booming economic development and the evolution of the Warsaw Pact countries' most politically permissive society. Relying heavily on foreign credits (and risking what he hopes will be temporary trade deficits), Gierek has purchased huge amounts of Western technology and capital equipment in an effort to create viable export industries...
...course I will never forget that morning at dawn, when hundreds of policemen and their clubs, overseen by that cold man watching from his mansion with binoculars, taught us what power the University commanded behind its shabby-genteel facade of sherry-sipping rationality--and on which side that cruel power would be exercised...
Forget the fact that Nixon has overseen the systematic denial of Export-Import Bank credits to countries whose domestic policies seemed unseemly to him. Ignore the convulsions in Chile induced by two years of U.S. economic poisoning. Nixon's explanation still rings false. The crisis would be here even if it weren't for the fact that the Arabs had picked up a few ungentlemanly American tricks. Even Nixon's handpicked energy czar, William Simon, says that the Arab embargo is only a convenient focal point, a catalyst that has speeded things up a bit but not changed the basic...
...occasions, but the leader survived to leave half a dozen books describing the Baha'i plan before he died in 1892. The plan, in the words of an official Baha'i publication, "offers a clear pattern of world order," without invoking any "secret mystic doctrines." That plan is now overseen by an elected nine-mancouncil located in Israel which also sets policy for Baha'is in those areas neglected by the scriptures of the founder...
...freshmen to a 15-5 record. He must have impressed a lot of people down in Tigerland, because it didn't take long for the Princeton athletic department to decide that it would much rather entrust the fate of the varsity to Semler rather than extending the horror show overseen by Quackenbush...