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...differing analyses from Western observers. Foreign policy experts in Bonn see Jaruzelski as an orthodox party loyalist whose rise presages direct action by the Polish armed forces if the labor situation deteriorates further. U.S. State Department analysts, pointing to Jaruzelski's past reluctance to use force against strikers, predict that he will support Kania's relatively moderate policy toward the unions. If that happens, Kania will have gained a valuable counterweight in his struggle against extreme hard-liners like Politburo Member Stefan Olszowski who have been arguing for an immediate crackdown. Finally, Jaruzelski is trusted by the Kremlin...
...futility of writing Bok individual letters. But more frustrating than the probability that letters might have no effect on the deliberations of the president was the individual students' lack of the requisite knowledge and familiarity with outside scholars to make informed suggestions. Students knew their professors, but few could predict how they would perform as dean. Few students responded to Bok's solicitation of letters...
Current estimates predict that Boston will lose between $97 million and $120 million through Proposition 2 1/2, the controversial measure limiting property taxes to 2.5 per cent of fair market value, which Massachusetts voters approved last November...
There is no doubt that the pipeline will help efforts by the Soviets to tap their own energy resources and ease any future fuel shortages. Soviet oil production has been growing more slowly in recent years, and some Western experts predict that the country might become a net importer of oil by the mid-1980s. The pipeline will alleviate the situation by sending gas to the Soviet Union's more populated regions like Minsk...
More than 400,000 people will die of cancer this year in the United States alone, according to government sources. Doctors will diagnose more than 600,000 new cases this year. Statistics predict one in four Americans will contract some type of cancer in his lifetime...