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...Department that such a sale would threaten the delicate normalization of relations with China. As a result of the Polish crisis, however, the U.S. is sending a top-level delegation to Peking. TIME has learned that its mission is to inform the Chinese that the U.S. has decided to refrain from selling Taiwan any fighter jets more advanced or sophisticated than the F-5Es it currently has. At the same time, the U.S. will urge the Chinese to end their deafening silence about Soviet involvement in the Polish crackdown. State Department officials involved with the trip insist that there...
...synthesizer beginning "Tomorrow" off the new album whines with the timbre of an hautboy or other traditional reed instrument. With melodies evoking the charm of an unassuming folk tune, most of the album's songs center around a long gliding refrain of three or four notes, which lead singer Bono produces with an almost yodeling quality to his voice. In "Is that all?" Bono seems to be rejecting pat classification. "You think this song makes me angry...Is that all?" But the guitar played by the Edge sounds distinctly like the Clash riff from "Running," and the guitarist's name...
...repetitious sections could find excuse with some sort of leitmotif, but October lacks a discernable theme. It appears rather that the group can only deal with permutations of a certain group of notes, and they choose their refrain words only to have vowels long enough to stretch over the melodies...
...meliorist approach to meaningful social reform is untenable for the Soviets and their puppets. The Polish workers are simply the latest victims to be sacrificed in the name of Soviet statism. Whether or not the Soviet Union intervenes militarily is unimportant at this point; the USSR will probably only refrain from doing so if the martial-law regime succeeds in its crackdown...
...still a litigator for the Mountain States Legal Foundation, which was founded by right-wing Brewer Joseph Coors and other businessmen to fight wilderness conservation efforts in the West. Last week, for example, Watt decreed that members of the National Park Service and top Interior Department aides should refrain from "wasting Government money by talking to national conservation leaders." He also requested, in a move of dubious legality, a list of department employees who are members of environmental groups. Although the Secretary might award himself an A for effort and many developers grade him A for achievement, others flunk...