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...could cripple France's own fledgling video recorder industry and deepen its projected $14 billion foreign trade deficit. When hefty new $65 annual licensing fees failed to dent demand, the government turned to obstructionism. Henceforth, decreed the French government, every Japanese recorder would have to clear a tiny ten-man customhouse in landlocked Poitiers...
Looking pale but fit, Brezhnev nominated Yuri Andropov, 67, the tall and somewhat stooped leader of the Committee for State Security (KGB), for election to the ten-man Secretariat of the Central Committee, a powerful body that runs the day-to-day affairs of the party. The Central Committee promptly elected him. Two days later, the government announced that Andropov had been relieved of his position in the KGB "because of his assignment to other duties." The promotion made Andropov one of only four contenders who hold the combination of posts thought necessary for a potential party chief: membership...
...Closing the Soviet Purchasing Commission, a ten-man Soviet agency in New York City that negotiates trade deals with...
...address, Reagan called Texas Democrat Charles Stenholm into the Oval Office to ask for his support. Stenholm agreed and pointed out that one way the President could win some Southern Democrats would be to stop opposing a peanut-crop allotment scheme. Taking his advice, Reagan later assured the ten-man Georgia delegation that the matter was not peanuts to him. When former President (and sometime Peanut Farmer) Jimmy Carter called Congressman Bo Ginn, it was too late. Carter was Ginn's 405th caller that day -and only the fifth to support the Democratic bill. Ginn and seven other Georgians...
...addition, local chapters were instructed to move their headquarters into major factory compounds in preparation for a general strike. Walesa was named to head a ten-man "strike command" committee that would operate from the Gdansk shipyard where last summer's labor revolt had begun. Finally, in an obvious reference to the intimidating Warsaw Pact troop maneuvers, the union issued a pledge not to "jeopardize law and order or Poland's foreign alliances...