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...which long regarded Iraq as an ally of the Soviet Union, is edging toward a rapprochement. The Reagan Administration last month lifted a number of stringent trade restrictions that had been levied against Iraq for supporting international terrorism. Though the U.S. has no intention of selling arms to Iraq, it can now be more flexible in dealing with that nation. In any case, Iraq has had no trouble purchasing arms from France and other Western European countries to supplement the vast stock of weapons it obtained from its closest ally in the 1970s, the Soviet Union...
...past decade, the annual death count in coal mining, the country's most dangerous industrial occupation, has dropped to fewer than 200, down from 1,000 or more a year in the 1940s. The improvement came from both technological advances and more stringent standards enforced by the Government since 1973. But now the trend has taken a troubling upswing: mine mishaps killed 106 men in 1978, 133 in 1980 and 155 last year. The Mink Branch disaster was one of seven major Kentucky mining accidents in seven weeks; since the first of the year, 31 U.S. coal miners have...
Sadat said Israel should vacate the strategic Mitla and Giddi passes deep in the Sinai. He wanted to retain a "minimum'' of 1½ divisions on the east bank of the Canal. He rejected the stringent restrictions on weapons that Israel had proposed. In Israel, when I presented this plan and argued that I could not go back to Sadat with the Dayan plan but needed a fallback position, the Cabinet showed considerable ingenuity. It simply turned the Dayan plan into the fallback position, giving me an even tougher new position with which to open the bidding. Yet there was, despite...
...curtail the Court in dealing with social issues. If those efforts succeed, the forces of the New Right would be given free reign to roll back many of the civil liberties gains of the last 20 years, among them Court decisions legalizing abortion, limiting school prayer and setting forth stringent requirements for the application of the death penalty...
Last week's legislation represented the most stringent anti-bushing policies ever to win the approval of a House of Congress. Put forth by Helms and Sen. J. Bennett Johnson (D-La.), the rider to a justice Department allocation bill would forbid all courts from ordering busing of students living more than five miles or 15 minutes from a school. It would also apply retroactively to nullify much court-ordered busing around the nation...