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...government officials could barely conceal their reaction. Dramatic as the proposal may have sounded to a layman, it was nothing more than a dusted-off version of an idea Brezhnev first offered in a speech in East Berlin more than two years ago when he was still trying to thwart NATO'S decision to install new weapons in response to the Soviet buildup of SS-20 missiles aimed at Europe. Brezhnev, who was making his first trip to the West since the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, had been successfully upstaged by Ronald Reagan. Concluded a State Department...
...obstacles facing Egypt may thwart good intentions and a tough executive. The economy will be badly hit because receipts from oil exports, which provided $2.5 billion in foreign currency last year, are tumbling along with the fall-off in world crude prices. Egypt is also beset by a ticking demographic time bomb...
While considering these moves, Marathon will continue to press its case in the courts and before the Federal Trade Commission. Either of them might thwart the Mobil takeover on antitrust grounds...
Mitchell, the office-workers' representative, said unequal pay, along with poor promotion prospects and working conditions for female office workers make imperative a concerted effort to thwart the Reagan administration's attempts to repeal affirmative action legislation and diminish the role of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration...
...several groups, including the state's SPCA and the New England Anti-vivisection Society, are attempting to repeal the pound law. Dr. Ronald Hunt, director of the center and professor of Comparative Pathology, is coordinating an effort by several Boston area medical schools to thwart this attempt...