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...Secretary of State, Madrid was one stop on a week-long tour that took him to Portugal, Morocco and finally behind the Iron Curtain to Rumania. The Secretary did not miss the opportunity to underscore firmly the U.S. position on Poland as he arrived in Bucharest, though he took care to cloak his message in diplomatic language. Said Haig: "Recent events in Eastern Europe and elsewhere in the world have emphasized once again the problems facing many countries as they attempt to pursue their national destinies free from outside interference...
...page, no-nonsense opinion, Judge Overton threw out the "balanced treatment" law and ended the first legal round in the bristling new battle between Fundamentalists on one side and an alliance of scientists, educators, clergy and civil libertarians on the other. Overton dismissed virtually all the week-long testimony that creationists had presented in his Little Rock courtroom last month...
Archbishop Luigi Poggi, a Vatican diplomat-at-large whose primary function is to maintain contact between the Holy See and the Polish government, returned to Rome following a week-long visit to Poland. While there, he had met with Jaruzelski and delivered a papal message urging an end to martial law. Poggi professed to see "some rays of hope" and even "the possibility of a reconciliation." Mediation with the Jaruzelski regime is being conducted not by the church directly but through a "social council" made up of Catholic laymen. Among them is a close friend of the Pope, Jerzy Turowicz...
...Ford project will award two fellowships to Brown faculty and four postdoctoral fellowships every year for a three-year period beginning next year. Eight visiting scholars will also be invited to participate in week-long research seminars every year...
...year-old union gained official recognition in 1978 when members conducted a week-long strike to obtain their first contract...