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Since most of that is textbooks, and a lot of the rest is coffee table and children's books, there is surprisingly little left in the way of good reading. If you are looking for basic literature, the Coop has it, and one advantage is that you can charge it, but even the fiction selection can be beaten at several of the other stores...
...plan, which will cost some $157 billion over the next ten years, will allow the Government to close down or sell off more than 500 insolvent savings institutions. To reform the rest of the thrift industry, the bill tightens capital requirements so that S & L owners would have more of their own money on the line. Specifically, the bill calls for all thrifts immediately to post $1.50 in reserves for each $100 in deposits and reach a level of $3 in reserves...
...Canada and Australia agreed to take in 55,000 more escapees. But for those who arrived later, the outlook was bleak. Only the few who can prove that they left to avoid persecution and not just to escape economic privation will be eligible to enter other countries. The rest will be encouraged and perhaps eventually forced to return home. But at the moment, Viet Nam is refusing to take them back...
Whatever reservations Moscow may have about the Polish election, the possibility of Soviet intervention seems extremely remote. Eight years ago, in the heyday of Solidarity's first incarnation, Leonid Brezhnev forced Jaruzelski to break the union. But Gorbachev has long since laid the interventionist Brezhnev Doctrine to rest, repeatedly promising the East * European regimes "mutual respect" and "non-interference in each other's internal affairs." Moreover, Gorbachev considers the reform-minded Jaruzelski an important ally in promoting what he calls "new thinking" throughout the Soviet bloc. Finally, the Soviet leader seems to regard the economic and political experiments in Poland...
...long ago, the catalog of crises that have recently afflicted the Soviet Union would have been buried in the recesses of the Kremlin, with much of the rest of the world none the wiser. Not anymore. With a newly emboldened press and oratorical skirmishing going on constantly in Moscow's new Congress of People's Deputies, an engrossed world knows practically everything...