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Both sides had earlier agreed to suspend the talks for a month and a half so the union could research health benefit plans and gather information pending reorganization of B&G management...
...Only last month the U.S., along with Britain and France, walked out of a meeting of the U.N.'s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna after it voted to refuse to recognize Israel's credentials as a member. In response Shultz announced that the U.S. would suspend the payment of $8.5 million in dues to the IAEA while Washington reconsiders its participation in the organization...
...looked at seriously by the participants " If anything, the White House attitude is echoed even more emphatically by Congress. Last April, at the urging of New York Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives passed a resolution calling on the U.S. to suspend its participation in the General Assembly if Israel were ever expelled. The greatest pressure for tough U.S. action is coming from conservative circles. In a forthcoming study, the Washington-based Heritage Foundation will take the U.N. to task for promoting a double standard on human rights, being consistently anti-American...
Western reaction was mixed. Asked to comment on the Polish situation shortly after the vote, President Ronald Reagan snapped, "I think it's horrible." At week's end he vowed to move as quickly as possible to suspend Poland's most-favored-nation trading status, which will result in increased import duties on more than $50 million in Polish goods sent to the U.S. Sharing Reagan's outrage, French Prime Minister Pierre Mauroy declared that the union law was "yet another attack against individual liberty and the rights of man." He added that the law would...
Begin has so far rejected suggestions that he suspend the controversial Sharon while the commission does its work. For his part, the Defense Minister has steadfastly refused to step down. Sharon said last week that he accepted the principle of ministerial responsibility, but blamed the world for exploiting the Beirut killings "to massacre Israel's moral image." He appealed to Israelis to put an end to this dispute over who was to blame. "Have we as a nation decided to commit suicide?" he asked. "Can we not stop this hatred among brothers?" for Sharon the question had great personal...