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...that Senate penalties "could be counterproductive because they run contrary to the spirit and practice" of export controls. The scandal was calmly discussed at a meeting in Tokyo last week between Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Japanese Prime Minister Yasuhiro Nakasone, in which Japan promised to help the U.S. strengthen its anti-submarine warfare capability...
...theoretically expanded personal freedoms at a time when the dictator's Great Terror was sweeping the country. The current version was adopted in 1977. One of its key changes: the right to sue the state, which has seldom been exercised but which Party Leader Mikhail Gorbachev is trying to strengthen through a reform of the Soviet legal code...
...setback stemmed from an accounting change that put aside $1.1 billion in case the bank's Latin American debtors start defaulting on $7.3 billion in loans. This dose of preventive medicine, prompted by archrival Citicorp's similar move, may eventually strengthen BankAmerica. But it could force the company to sell off some major assets, including the Seattle-based Seafirst bank, acquired...
...help raise the nuclear threshold, NATO defense ministers agreed last month to strengthen their conventional forces through a 3% boost in defense spending. Yet most NATO governments have consistently failed in the past to fulfill their military spending commitments. Moreover, with the Gorbachev peace offensive in full swing, it will be difficult to win public support for military budget increases. In West Germany, for example, 72% of respondents in a U.S.-sponsored survey registered approval for Soviet arms control diplomacy, compared with only 9% for U.S. efforts. Says Eberhard Schulz, a West German Sovietologist: "Gorbachev's propaganda has really reached...
...shuffle has implications beyond the cover-up. The President's Democratic Justice Party meets next week to pick a candidate to succeed him when he steps down in February. D.J.P. Chairman Roh Tae Woo appears to have Chun's blessing. Insiders say the sacking of Chang and Lho should strengthen Roh's position...