Word: unionizers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President ticked off a long series of actions that Moscow must take ("tear down the Iron Curtain . . . achieve a lasting political pluralism and respect for human rights" inside the Soviet Union) to earn U.S. trust. By contrast, he offered little in the way of U.S. action. He revived and expanded the "open skies" proposal advanced 34 years ago by Dwight Eisenhower. Under it, each side would let the other's unarmed reconnaissance planes, and now satellites, fly over its territory...
...work with Congress for a "temporary waiver" of the 1974 Jackson-Vanik amendment, which sharply restricts U.S.-Soviet trade unless the Kremlin allows free emigration of Soviet Jews and other citizens. The condition: the Kremlin must write into Soviet law liberalized definitions of who can leave the Soviet Union...
ESSAY: Can reform work in China and the Soviet Union...
...hottest story, it was the story. The first Solidarity daily ever to be published legally in Poland, the Gazeta ran a large portrait of Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and an account of his meeting with Jozef Cardinal Glemp. The edition also carried six pages profiling the union's candidates in next month's parliamentary elections...
Because of a technical glitch, only 150,000 copies of the first few issues rolled off the presses, but the projected circulation is 500,000. Under the agreement reached during the round-table talks between union and government leaders last month, the paper, rechristened Gazeta Codzienna (Daily Gazette), will continue to be published after the election. While the editors have announced their intention to "present views and opinions of the whole independent society," the Gazeta will no doubt always have a favorite subject. The paper's motto: "There is no freedom without Solidarity...