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...chair while the others occupy two sofas separated by a coffee table and a bouquet of freshly cut daisies, carnations and snapdragons. Allen starts with Poland. As the civilians who lack security clearances file out of the room, Reagan asks about the political leanings of Warsaw's new premier, Wojciech Jaruzelski...
Harvard's premier swimmer in the early 1970s and the top butterflyer in the school's history, the Albuquerque, N.M. resident still holds the University record in both the 100-yd. and 200-yd. butterfly. Yntema is also the only Harvard swimmer ever to take home four gold medals from the Eastern Seaboard Championships. In 1974 he won both of the butterfly events and the 200-yd. freestyle and swam the anchor leg on the winning 800-yd. freestyle relay...
...southern textile center of Bielsko-Biala, where strikers demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials had shut down 120 factories and paralyzed most of the surrounding province since Jan. 27. At midweek the provincial governor and three deputies submitted their resignations, apparently clearing the way for a solution. But Premier Jozef Pinkowski refused to accept the resignations immediately. With that, the talks broke off abruptly...
Chirac's candidacy, together with that of former Premier and De Gaulle Aide Michel Debré, 69, further complicates the race. Gaullists, who consider Giscard a usurper, will no doubt favor Chirac or Debré in the first round. Giscard's re-election may depend on how many return to the fold in a runoff against Mitterrand...
Schwab has been able to get luminaries to go to Davos, for which they receive generous speaking fees plus expenses. Last year former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger used the Davos podium to warn against a Soviet arms buildup, and in 1979 French Premier Raymond Barre gloomily predicted that Western Europe's lack of energy and raw materials would condemn it to dangerous dependence on the Middle East and other areas...