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...Soviets and their satellites have sunk deeper into the quagmire, they have become tempting targets for commercial and financial sanctions, even though such measures have been ineffective in the past. After the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in late 1979, President Carter declared a partial embargo on grain exports and shipments of many types of technology to Moscow. Sixteen months later, Reagan lifted the grain embargo, saying that it was hurting American farmers more than the Soviet Union. In response to last December's martial-law crackdown in Poland, Reagan strengthened the ban against technology exports to the Soviets...
...picked it up had the same reaction: they saw the lipstick-red banner head at the top, they read the teasers running down the left-hand column ("Toilet paper beauty linked to Teddy's past? page 3"), and they said this is it--the Boston Herald-American has sunk to an all-time...
Israel's public relations abroad, thanks to its perceived belligerence, have sunk to an all-time low. The nation has, of course, surmounted bad press in the past, but now even some of its most ardent supporters have their doubts. The financial and military backing that Israel needs from other nations could wane, and anti-Semitic terrorists could easily mistake the growing skepticism of Israeli actions with support of their horrible anti-Jewish bombings, like the recent ones in France...
...hundred years later, workers were scheduled to gather again in New York City on what has become the legally recognized holiday of Labor Day. This latest celebration of the industrial spirit, however, could not obscure the fact that the fortunes of organized labor have sunk to their lowest level in half a century. The Great Depression in the 1930s was the impetus for the greatest push toward unionization in American history, but the economic crisis of the 1980s threatens to undermine the organized labor movement...
...sight is what cannot be seen any more: the once ubiquitous Solidarity pins on coat lapels and the political slogans that seemed to be scrawled on every available wall. But if the shock and fear of the first dark days of martial law have now passed, the country seems sunk in joyless apathy. Though darkness comes late to Poland's northern summer days, the streets of major cities are empty by early evening. Cracow's ancient market square, normally crowded with youths, folk singers and tourists, seems as lifeless as a clock bereft of hands...