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...appearing soft on the issue of Polish repression, de-emphasized the talks by saying he would attend only one day of meetings, not the planned two. He also told aides that he would deflect questions of a summit meeting soon between Reagan and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev and would resist efforts by Gromyko to bargain toward the Soviets' key objective, a date for reopening general strategic arms talks (START). Instead, said an aide to Haig, the Secretary would deal almost exclusively with "Poland and the whole range of Soviet activities detrimental to our interests and those of our allies...
...smile and a sharp sense of the absurd. He learned that one of the White House servants, a robust woman of perhaps 190 lbs., believed in reincarnation, so he asked her what she wanted to be in her next life. A canary, she said wistfully. Roosevelt couldn't resist laughter. "I love it, I love it, I love it," he said. One of his most celebrated bits of clowning was his mock-solemn response to a Republican charge that he had accidentally left his Scotch terrier Fala behind on a trip to Alaska and then sent a destroyer...
TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik was in Gdansk on Dec. 13 when martial law was declared. He has watched General Jaruzelski try to subdue the country and has seen the Poles react and resist. Shortly after leaving Poland last week, Hornik filed this report on what life is like in Warsaw in the wake of the crackdown...
...where even the youngest know of places like Auschwitz and Dachau. For the Arab children in the occupied territories, darkness is in the present; the land is no longer theirs, their freedoms are snatched away. Like the children of Belfast, both the Israeli and the Palestinian children resist the life imposed on them. The Palestinians show their strength of will in bitterness toward the enemy. The Israeli feelings are often more generous, perhaps because they are children of the victors...
...spending limits was concluded last week when Congress made one last $4 billion trim. In doing so, Congress settled a dispute with the President over roughly $2 billion in controversial cuts, which had caused Reagan to veto a spending resolution last month. Democrat Sidney Yates of Illinois could not resist taunting House Republicans: "Instead of having a deficit of $109 billion, you'd have a deficit of $107.5 billion." The new "continuing resolution" allows the Government to operate while the final appropriations bills are being written...