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...debate in the Cabinet dragged on for 7½ hours as both sides sought to stave off the inevitable. At one point, one of Begin's aides reminded Hurvitz in a note that his resignation would help bring a Labor Party successor. Hurvitz scribbled back: "Yes, I know things will be worse, but I don't want to be responsible for the economic collapse." Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon, who is renowned both for histrionic outbursts and for an unyielding determination to plant more Jewish settlements on the occupied West Bank, lashed out at Hurvitz. Said...
...effort to avert a collision with the government and stave off a possible Soviet military invasion, Lech Walesa, the leader of Poland's independent Solidarity unions, had called for a moratorium on strikes until mid-January. But last week, after scarcely more than a month of relative peace, the labor front heated up again. Renewed protests and strike threats showed that the union leadership is still unable to impose a uniform discipline on the vast and restive labor movement...
Reluctance to approve new taxes in the face of overwhelming voter support for proposition 2 1/2, the continuing lobbying efforts of groups like Citizens for Limited Taxation, and the nonchalance of suburban legislators about helping older, poorer cities stave off the effects of big tax cuts will all slow action, perhaps until later April or May, Graham and others said...
...climactic Sunday session, the diehards tried to attach some new conditions. One would have required the U.S. to grant Iranian parliamentarians free television air time to explain their grievances to the American people. But the deputies beat back this and other attempts to stave off, or at least further complicate, the negotiations. Then came the Majlis vote approving the basis for the hostage release...
Iraqi forces inched forward in their effort to capture and isolate the Iranian province of Khuzistan, but the Iranians continued to stave off the Iraqis' superior firepower. As in the past, the Iraqis churned out premature claims of victory. But at week's end, Iranian Revolutionary Guards and military regulars were still repulsing Iraqi assaults aimed at capturing Dezful's oil-pumping station. To the south, 80 miles away at Ahwaz, Iranian artillery fire was keeping Iraqi troops on the outskirts of the provincial capital...