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...Jaruzelski who clamped down on the Poles. It is the string pullers in Moscow. We do not threaten our allies with invasion if they do not stop their strikes or riots. But the Soviet Union does. The Poles have done what others in Communist countries fear to do. Brigham A. McCown Ironton, Ohio
President Reagan looked favorably on Taiwan's request last spring to buy a new generation of advanced American fighter jets, despite warnings from the State Department that such a sale would threaten the delicate normalization of relations with China. As a result of the Polish crisis, however, the U.S. is sending a top-level delegation to Peking. TIME has learned that its mission is to inform the Chinese that the U.S. has decided to refrain from selling Taiwan any fighter jets more advanced or sophisticated than the F-5Es it currently has. At the same time, the U.S. will...
...bill proposed in the House--approved already in a similar version by the Senate--would "threaten Harvard's basic research programs," Parker L. Coddington, director of government relations, said yesterday, adding that the bill's quota would diminish the quality of the total national research effort...
opportunity. The perils are obvious. The free world's alliances are weakened and some of its economies faltering; the adversaries are more threatening and the have-nots more demanding. Military power and its illicit offspring, terrorism, threaten to break all restraints. Firm decisions elude American strategists on nuclear security. Recession continues and worries deepen over the impact of budget and tax cuts. Decline in the auto, steel and building industries spills over to small business, farming and credit...
WHILE the rest of the world was watching the Polish crisis unfold, the Israeli government last month took a step that could also threaten world peace. By annexing the Golan Heights--the strategic high ground that Israel has occupied since its 1967 defeat of Syria--Prime Minister Menachem Begin helped undermine the codes of international cooperation and respect that are his nation's only long-run hope for stability...