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...Polish "counterrevolutionaries" in Izvestiya, Soviet government newspaper. A sudden flight to Prague by Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to meet with Warsaw Pact leaders. It seemed all too reminiscent of the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, an operation that had followed on the heels of Warsaw Pact war games. Could that scenario be replayed now in Poland? No one could say. But the alarming signs sparked a new round of invasion jitters last week, just as the Poles should have been heaving a sigh of relief at having averted a potentially disastrous general strike...
Crimson: In a worst-case scenario, would you favor sending U.S. military troops if necessary to keep the EI Salvadorean government from falling...
Weinberger: Well, I'd have to see what that worst-case scenario really was. I'm very hopeful and reasonably confident that the EI Salvadorean government will be able to dispose of the guerillas, but if they keep pouring in more weapons and arms and PLO-types from various other parts of the world why then [the government] might have more trouble in handling the situation. But I hope this doesn't happen...
...same happy scenario seems likely to be followed on Broadway, where the opening is May 7. The night after an ad appeared in the New York Times, a line began forming outside the Martin Beck Theater; before the week was out nearly $1 million worth of tickets had been sold. Producer Zev Bufman was already making plans to extend the New York run through Labor Day, nine weeks past the previously scheduled July 4 closing date, then take the production to New Orleans, Los Angeles and possibly London as well. "She's the hottest draw I've ever...
Alan Greenspan, an adviser to President Reagan, warns that the S and Ls' weakness could force the Federal Government into a massive bailout of the thrifts. One grim scenario: queasy depositors make a run on the S and Ls, withdrawing their savings and cashing in the $40 billion in uninsured certificates of deposit, which the S and Ls would have to make up through sales of assets or more expensive borrowings. Those S and Ls that cannot make ends meet turn to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp. (FSLIC), under the supervision of the Federal Home Loan Bank...