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...waiters, waitresses, and bartenders at Ferdinand's and the Ha' Penny Pub, which are owned by the same company and occupy the same building at 121 Mt. Auburn St., had worked without a contract until yesterday after their previous one-year pact expired Monday night...
...announcement capped months of Warsaw Pact statements about "appropriate responses" to the planned NATO depolyment of 572 U.S. built medium-range missiles in Western Europe. It said the preparatory work was "one of the planned response measures in case the American missiles are sited in Europe...
Almost simultaneously, Warsaw Pact Commander Marshal Viktor Kulikov, speaking on the eve of a Soviet bloc foreign ministers' meeting in Sofia, Bulgaria, outlined the retaliatory measures Moscow is prepared to take in the event of deployment. Kulikov vowed that the Soviets would "deploy additional nuclear weapons to offset NATO'S growing nuclear might in Europe and we shall take corresponding countermeasures with regard to U.S. territory." It was another explicit warning that Moscow is prepared to introduce new missiles into Eastern Europe and mount new cruise-type missiles on refurbished submarines that could patrol U.S. coastal waters. Though...
...apparent attempt to shift the blame for any failure in Geneva back to the U.S., the Warsaw Pact foreign ministers in Sofia issued a communique declaring that "if agreement is not reached by year's end, it is essential that the talks be continued." Despite the public posturing on both sides, U.S. and Soviet negotiating teams were scheduled to reconvene this week in Geneva...
...State Department would treat each case as unique and see local causes and particular circumstances. In El Salvador, look at land tenure and understand the role of the army as a way for middle-class men to get rich by killing the poor. Lebanon? The 1943 national pact now underrepresented Shiite Moslems and the Druse, hence they are unhappy. With this sort of perspective, foxes see hedgehogs as ideologues likely to waste lives and money in immoral adventures. Hedgehogs see foxes as blind to the ever-present danger and willing to give away the candy store, the debate...