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Although the government continually proclaims that the country has produced 30 million tons more coal under martial law than during the period that Solidarity existed, Eugeniusz's family has yet to receive any for this winter. With temperatures already dropping below freezing, the only warmth in the high-ceilinged apartment comes from a small electric heater. Neither Eugeniusz nor Grazyna have much hope that the situation will improve. "Things might be better when our son is our age," says Grazyna...
...unfamiliar kind of quake has shaken California: recession. Sometimes considered immune to economic woes, the nation's most populous state suffered an 11.2% unemployment rate in October, close to half a point higher than the national average in November. In 1978 the Golden State sunned itself in the warmth of a $3.7 billion state budget surplus, but now it is projected to be more than $ 1 billion in the red before the fiscal year ends on June 30. Last month California had to take out $400 million in bank loans just to pay ongoing bills, and has ceased selling...
...minutes in 14-seater, heated planes that flew daily from Boston to New York. Even Santa "pastured his reindeer and ordered a monoplane for his deliveries," according to Rollo airlines. They claimed that the merry old soul had "gone modern." A raccoon coat could provide an extra layer of warmth on those journeys...
There was nothing hesitant, however, about the way he greeted the visitors, who included 32 heads of state, 15 Prime Ministers, 14 foreign ministers and four princes. Filing in first were the envoys from the Communist states of Eastern Europe. Andropov expressed no particular warmth toward General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's military ruler. Next came such allies as Cuban Party Chief Fidel Castro and Afghan President Babrak Karmal. They passed by briskly, exchanging only a few phrases with Andropov. But when Chinese Foreign Minister Huang Hua extended his hand toward Andropov's, the slow-moving queue of dignitaries...
...underestimated. Kremlinologists say that the Politburo uses Pravda and other papers as a mouthpiece for Soviet policy; the friendly comments put to paper last week represent a positive change--however small--in Soviet foreign policy. Reagan's MX move is sure to put a chill on this new-found warmth...