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...presided over what may be remembered as a historic Communist Party conference that endorsed his plan for political and economic perestroika (restructuring). Last week Gorbachev turned his attention to Eastern Europe, paying his first state visit to its largest member, Poland, and presiding over a summit of the Warsaw Pact military alliance...
...Soviet leader, chairing a Warsaw Pact summit, advances Moscow' s program for political and economic renewal as a way of jump- starting similar plans in Eastern Europe. -- A crackdown in Nicaragua spurs calls for military aid to the contras. -- Britain beats the U. S. to the arms deal of the century...
Last week in New York City, he unveiled a far-reaching civil lawsuit, charging 26 reputed mobsters and the Teamsters' 18 top executives with making a "devil's pact" to subvert the nation's largest union. Filed under the Racketeer-Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act, the suit aims to oust the union's entire leadership, replacing it with a court-appointed trustee who will supervise the "free and fair" election of a new executive board...
...Presser was named an adviser to the 1980 Reagan transition team, headed by none other than Edwin Meese III. "Had this information been available at the time," Attorney General Meese said last week, "President Reagan . . . would obviously not have accepted that kind of support." But evidence of the Teamsters' pact with the devil was known well before 1980. As the report of the President's Commission on Organized Crime points out, "Jackie Presser had . . . an extensive record of organized-crime associations through organizations that were infested with La Cosa Nostra associates and convicted felons...
...Salinas, the challenge from the left is more bothersome than that of P.A.N., an electoral foe since the 1940s. A wage-and-price pact introduced in December cooled inflation to 1.9% in May, its lowest rate since November 1981. But the pact is fraying, and between the election and inauguration day in December, pressures will grow for populist measures. "Before there was no serious organized opposition to policies," said Castaneda. "Now P.R.I. is worried that a strong showing by Cardenas will change this...