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...remained. The final communique declared that NATO would press forward with the deployment of the missiles in "selected countries." NATO Secretary-General Joseph Luns confirmed that the countries were Britain, West Germany and Italy; he added that "Belgium and The Netherlands may accept the missiles later." Both recalcitrant countries said that they might well accept the missiles on their territory if there were no progress in disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union; Belgium said it would reconsider in six months, The Netherlands in two years...
...Broadbent (27 seats). When the shouting from the triumphant opposition benches had subsided, Clark rose from the government bench to make the despondent announcement. "The government has lost a vote on a matter which we have no alternative but to regard as a question of confidence," he said. "I want to advise the House that I will be seeing his excellency, the Governor General, tomorrow morning...
...report, which covered a twelve-month period ending on April 30, claimed that there had been some felicitous improvements, like the fall last April of Uganda's murderous Idi Amin, but it said that they were eclipsed by serious deteriorations elsewhere. An example: the increasing execution of criminals in Pakistan (800 this year) and South Africa (132). The report suggests that there may be something of a regional pattern of abuses. In Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, for example, dissidents protesting abuses of human and religious rights continue to be given long prison sentences or incarceration in psychiatric...
...died from starvation were a common sight along the roads, and children sometimes came to beg food from the Vietnamese soldiers, who occasionally threw them scraps. All three deserters were adamant in testifying they had seen no food from international relief agencies distributed to hungry Cambodian civilians. Said Tran: "I don't think the North Vietnamese will tire of battling to conquer Cambodia, even if it takes another year or two." His fellow deserter Van added: "The North Vietnamese are unhappy when they're not fighting...
...taking a little time off from work, and dancing," says Labbe. "There are even some private barbershops and ladies' hairdressing salons in Phnom-Penh." Electricity was operating in every major city Labbe visited. "It seemed strange to be spending my nights in air-conditioned rooms in guesthouses," he said. "Refrigerators seemed to be working everywhere. Sometimes I even found a bottle of iced Vietnamese or Thai beer. But there was running water only in Phnom-Penh." Labbe observed a flourishing capitalist-style free market in food and in goods smuggled from Thailand. Cambodians who buried gold and jewelry during...