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...nations everywhere are revising laws covering patents, copyrights and trade names. Malaysia, Egypt, China, Turkey, Brazil and even the Soviet Union have all recently announced plans either to enact new laws or beef up existing safeguards. In an effort to win U.S. congressional support for a proposed free-trade pact, Mexico last month revealed plans to double the life of trademark licenses to 10 years and extend patent protection for the first time to such products as pharmaceuticals and food...
...invasion of Western Europe. But the dragon that breathed genuine fire for so many years is slinking back into its cave. As many as a million troops that were once available -- at least on paper -- to mount a communist blitzkrieg are melting away. The dissolution of the Warsaw Pact two months ago removed some 500,000 soldiers of Moscow's former allies in Eastern Europe from even theoretical Kremlin control. Another 500,000 Soviet troops are being pulled back within the borders of the U.S.S.R...
...pact will bring the city more than $11 million over the 10-year period from Harvard as compensation for the University's vast tax-exempt landholdings, which amount to almost 5 percent of the city's potential taxable property. Harvard's annual voluntary contribution rose by $100,000, while compensation for tax-exempt affiliated housing property rose by nearly the same amount...
Soon after the pact's approval, John Shattuck, Harvard's vice president for government, community and public affairs said the new agreement was better than any other university-city pact in the nation. And it is that sort of praise that Shattuck has continued to give throughout the year...
...deadline for a complete withdrawal. The evacuation of nearly 2,000 Cuban soldiers added a grace note to this week's scheduled signing in Lisbon of a peace treaty between Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos and Jonas Savimbi, leader of the U.S.-backed rebel group UNITA. The pact paves the way for the establishment of a multiparty democracy in the formerly Marxist state and elections...