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...Drug Administration, for example, reports that up to 85% of the requests for information come from other businesses. In one case, a report supplied by the agency under the act revealed details of an exclusive filtration process to a rival manufacturer. Congress is now considering a bill to tighten the measure by allowing firms to challenge disclosures more easily...
With bombs and rockets, the Israelis tighten the noose on the P.L.O...
...Western burden since the days of Kim Philby and his fellow double agents, Donald Maclean and Guy Burgess, all Cambridge graduates and members of the old-boy network, who were unmasked as Soviet agents. U.S. spymasters say that they have tried ever since to persuade their British counterparts to tighten security, but with only limited success. "The British are very good at gathering and analyzing information," says one intelligence expert. But, he notes, "they do not keep their eye on their people...
...most alienated segment of Polish society is the young. Whether headed for factories or universities, they see no prospect for great personal freedom or even for better economic conditions. Says a University of Warsaw professor: "The state of war has created a generation of opposition." Despite government efforts to tighten ideological controls and reinstitute mandatory classes in Marxism-Leninism, Polish youths are adopting styles of rebellion from their Western peers...
...wrongly, Western European leaders had been led by Secretary of State Alexander Haig and other officials to believe that the U.S. was willing to soften its opposition to the pipeline in the interest of harmony, and specifically in exchange for a European agreement-feeble though it was-to tighten credit to the Soviet bloc...