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...oriented American foreign policy toward the Third World with this in mind. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. is travelling it. the Middle East this week to convince Arab and Israeli leaders to put aside their differences and unite against the Soviet Union. The administration has analyzed unrest in Central America quite graphically: a few weeks ago. Haig told a Congressional committee that the Soviet Union and Cuba had drawn up a "hit list" of countries in the region...
...native to deny that the Soviet Union and Cuba have contributed to political instability in the developing world, it is equally simplistic to discount domestic political and economic conditions in explaining such instability. Ironically, U.S. supported economic development in the postwar period may have fostered the political unrest that now confronts the administration. The increased literacy rates, urbanization, television and other factors accompanying development have raised the expectations within developing nations with regard to the improvement of economic well being. However, greater inequalities in the distribution of income and wealth and the continued exclusion of newly politicized groups from significant...
Never, since the outbreak of last summer's labor unrest, had Poland seemed so close to the brink. The union-government dialogue that had repeatedly staved off outright confrontation in recent months was sputtering. Party Boss Stanislaw Kania branded the union challenge "an invitation to suicide." Fears rose that the government might impose martial law, especially if the hard-line faction in the Central Committee took over...
When these Japanese characteristics are brought into the modern factory, the result is a smoothly functioning enterprise that produces quality goods. This is most clearly seen in the easy working relationship of management and labor. Japan has fewer strikes and less labor unrest than any other major industrial power. In 1978 Japan lost 1.4 million workdays because of strikes, while the U.S. lost 39 million...
...hijacking climaxed nearly a month of mounting unrest in Pakistan, the most serious wave of opposition that General Zia's martial-law regime has faced since it came to power in a military takeover in 1977. The ferment began with a secret meeting in Lahore of representatives of seven opposition parties. With all political activity outlawed for the past 18 months, some politicians had to circumvent travel bans, while others sent surrogates...