Word: yeare
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...might have added that the well-being of Begin's embattled government had also been a factor. In fact, nobody seemed happier with Ben-Eliezer's decision than the Premier. With obvious relish, he announced that he would meet Sadat at a summit at Aswan on New Year's Day. The Premier's confidence, shaken ever since the resignation of Foreign Minister Moshe Dayan last October, seemed restored and appeared to give him a new vigor with which he went on to defuse two other political crises...
Since late last year, "democracy wall," along Peking's broad Chang An Avenue, represented a unique and hopeful experiment in China's tightly controlled society. It was a place where everyone from political critics to whimsical poets could paste up wall posters, which are protected by China's 1978 constitution. Thousands of people sometimes came to the wall to read the patchwork quilt of personal grievances, sharply worded essays demanding more freedom, and short stories and poems. Last week the Municipal Revolutionary Committee of Peking, clearly acting at the direction of the Chinese Communist Party, issued...
...arrest last spring of nearly 30 human rights activists-had only a temporary effect, as critical posters began to proliferate again during the summer. China's leaders have been reluctant to take overtly harsh measures against poster writing, having praised it as a "good thing" late last year. By removing democracy's centerpiece to a less conspicuous and more controlled location, they apparently hope to cow China's tiny human rights movement into quiescence-without banning poster writing entirely...
...hoopla, however, newsmen saw only about 30 tanks and 150 troops aboard the "train of hope and good will" at Wittenberg. Though the Soviets have promised to withdraw 1,000 tanks and "up to" 20,000 soldiers over the next year, that action will not significantly reduce their East German force, which includes 6,700 tanks and 365,000 troops. Moreover, the outfit involved in last week's withdrawal, the Sixth Guards Tank Division, is rated by the Pentagon as the least capable of all the Soviet units in the Warsaw Pact countries. Essentially, say U.S. analysts, the much...
...ever heard. It drives the help crazy." But the help noticed that infants usually dozed off within 15 seconds after the womb sounds began. That led to Rock-A-Bye-Bear which, with sales of 25,000 so far, may well be the sleeper of the year...