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...spouse Relationship: How to Reduce Conflict and Strengthen the Remarriage, Riverside Family Institute, 259 Walnut St., Room 14, Newtonville...
Syria's hostility toward Tawheed is rooted partly in the group's close ties to Yasser Arafat's P.L.O., which Syrian President Hafez Assad is determined to prevent from gaining a new foothold in Lebanon. In addition, in its bid to pacify Lebanon and strengthen President Amin Gemayel's authority, Syria wants to reduce the power of religion-based militias like Tawheed...
...President encouraged Congress to strengthen existing laws against foreign infringement of U.S. patents and copyrights and against "dumping," which is generally defined as the sale of a product in export markets for a lower price than it commands at home; he asked that Congress establish a dumping test that could be applied to "nonmarket" (read Communist) economies. But Reagan did not propose any specific new legislation. The burden of his talk: Yes, there is discrimination against U.S. trade abroad and unfair penetration of the American market, but it is best countered "through negotiation" and administrative action, not blunderbuss curbs...
...Geneva negotiations have been paralyzed. During the arid summer round, one U.S. representative told his Soviet counterpart, "Go ahead, tempt us. Make us an offer we can't refuse." Now Moscow appears to be trying to do just that. Further, the Soviets' move on the diplomatic chessboard will strengthen their argument that the summit can and should produce results. Reagan, on bidding Shevardnadze farewell, acknowledged that the visit had produced "progress" but declined to characterize it. Shultz, while saying that Reagan had not changed his view on Star Wars, spoke in positive terms about the latest proposition. "The President welcomed...
...priority task" is to bring about "radical improvement" in the performance of the Soviet economy, but this does not necessarily mean setting "new records in producing metals, oil, cement, machine tools or other products. The main thing is to make life better for people." He pledged both to "further strengthen centralization in strategic areas of the economy" and "at the same time . . . to broaden the autonomy of production associations, enterprises, collective and state farms." He would accomplish this, he said, in part by using "such tools as profit, pricing, credit and self-sufficiency of enterprises," all designed to achieve less...