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...United States has reportedly reacted to warnings from the Swedish embassy about a Canadian threat by scheduling joint NATO naval maneuvers on Lake Ontario. "With the level of unrest rising among French separatists in Quebec," explained a Pentagon spokesman, "the least we must to do it secure Rochester and Buffalo...
...want payment on their loans, the developing countries are not anxious to take austerity measures to pay their debts, and international institutions are reluctant to lend still more money to the poor countries except on tough terms. The result of the three-sided struggle could lead to more political unrest in some Third World countries...
...cracks in the Soviets' façade of iron invincibility could hardly have come at a more inopportune time for them. The leadership situation is fuzzy. Their forces are still bogged down in Afghanistan even though they have increased their strength to 100,000 troops. Worries about unrest in Poland are rising again. All this adds up, in the minds of some U.S. analysts, to a belief that for the moment the Soviet Union is less inclined to take aggressive action in faraway places. Score one for Yankee ingenuity-something we had almost forgotten...
...Pontiff had hoped to attend last week's ceremonies, but Polish authorities cited continuing unrest as an excuse for postponing the papal visit at least until next year. John Paul's absence was symbolized by a conspicuously empty seat on the monastery's dais. From his summer residence at Castel Gandolfo, meanwhile, the Pope celebrated the Black Madonna's anniversary with a special Mass at which he declared that the Polish "state can be truly strong only with the support of society." But he added that national reconciliation could come only through dialogue, not opposition...
...began to mark the two weeks of emotional anniversaries that will climax on Aug. 31, the date when the Polish government signed a national accord two years ago with Solidarity, the true depth of the "invisible" hatred had yet to be measured. However unlikely another outburst of widespread national unrest seemed last week, it still could not be counted out. There is a precedent: two years ago at the Lenin shipyard, when one strike came to an end and another of a totally different sort began...