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That, however, may be just the beginning. At the annual conference of his ruling Labor Party in January, Tom Adams issued a spirited proposal for a region-wide regular army. The defense force, he said, would be merely an extension of a 1981 regional security pact under which each of the islands agreed to provide volunteer assistance for the others in the face of such problems as hurricanes, smugglers or threats to national security. The pact was most famously invoked during the Grenada invasion, when a total of 300 police and soldiers from six islands were sent to support...
...limited. The goal of Chapter 11, wrote Justice William H. Rehnquist, is to permit a company's "successful rehabilitation." Consequently, a business need not prove that it is in danger of imminent collapse in order to obtain the bankruptcy court's permission to cancel a union pact. What it must show is that the labor contract unduly "burdens" its prospects for recovery and that it has made "reasonable" attempts to bargain with the union for deferred or smaller wage increases or other money saving measures. Only then can it be altogether freed by the court from its labor...
...pact between wary neighbors...
...black-ruled neighbor. But when both men finally met in Mozambique's capital of Maputo last week, it was to shake hands and talk peace. After eight hours of discussions, negotiating teams for the two sides emerged to announce that they had agreed to sign a joint security pact...
...uncharacteristic mood promises to rein in a dangerous escalation in tensions between the two countries, with each accusing the other of sponsoring cross-border subversion. Although details of the pact remain to be settled, it would prevent the use of Mozambique as a base for the militant African National Congress (A.N.C.), which has mounted sabotage attacks on South African targets, including government installations and police stations. In turn, South Africa would tacitly agree to withhold support from the 10,000-member Mozambique National Resistance (M.N.R.) movement, an insurgent group that has plagued Mozambique for the past five years...