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...three weeks after Ireland's inconclusive general election, incumbent Prime Minister Charles Haughey and Opposition Leader Garret FitzGerald raced to form a new government. Last week FitzGerald won. He crafted an ingenious pact between his own pro-business Fine Gael (Family of the Irish) party and the ideologically distant, pro-union Labor Party. The result: a razor-thin majority of three seats in the Irish Dáil (parliament)-and a coalition so vulnerable it will take all of FitzGerald's wizardry just to last out the summer...
...country's already formidable defenses-its 340,000-man army is considered by far the best in Western Europe-at a time when many of his countrymen think that it is hopeless even to think of opposing the Soviet juggernaut. NATO forces are outnumbered by the Warsaw Pact nations more than 2 to 1 in divisions, better than 3 to 1 in tanks and a frightening 8 to 1 in medium-range nuclear missiles. Logistics experts fear that NATO forces would start running short of ammunition, fuel, weapons and spare parts within scant days of any Soviet attack...
Workers some of whom currently earn the minimum wage, will receive a 15 per cent salary increase in the first year of a three-year pact, and cost of living increases in the following two years under the pact...
...allowed to purchase 3 million metric tons of wheat and 3 million metric tons of corn above the 8 million tons it is allowed to acquire under the existing five-year agreement, which expires on Sept. 30. Both sides will meet again to discuss a new long-term pact; in the meantime, the Soviet Union will be permitted to buy up to 6 million tons of grain from exporting firms after Sept. 30 without consulting Washington. Declared U.S. Spokesman Don Looper: "The agreement should benefit both sides...
...criticisms and quarrels with Poland's "socialist renewal," opposite words must, in the fashion of George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, be substituted: for "free and independent," read subservient; for "counterrevolution" read reform and democratization; and for "protection of the socialist commonwealth" read intervention by Warsaw Pact forces. Excerpts from the letter, as translated by the New York Times...