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...increasingly vocal West European peace movement. But the idea could not be more wrong. At every step along the way, Europeans have played an important and often decisive role in setting NATO policy on the new missiles. A retrospective look at the key stages in an ironic and frustrating chapter of Atlantic Alliance history...
...read like a chapter of seabed science fiction, but last week Swedes were taking very seriously indeed a report by their government charging the Soviet Union with a spectacular underwater spy effort off the Swedish coast. After a six-month investigation, an official commission concluded that up to six submarines had been involved in a bold intrusion into the waters near Sweden's Musk Island naval base last October. The fleet was said to include three advanced miniature submarines, some equipped with tanklike treads for crawling along the sea floor. One of the minisubs, the report disclosed, may have...
...NARRATIVE is leavened, however, by Erofeev's prodigal powers of comic invention. There are countless passages of Rabelaisian discourse. One entire chapter is devoted to a detailed analysis of Russia's greatest calling--hiccups. Another chapter is a bartender's manual for some of the most bizarre drinks ever conceived, including an unorthodox mixture of beer, two kinds of shampoo (one anti-dandruff), and insect repellant. The humor ranges from the highly subtle to the truly gross, most of it reasonably well-served by J.R. Dorrell's colloquial translation...
Local 26 is the union chapter representing the Harvard workers...
Wilhelm, who is also president of the union chapter which represents. Yale workers, pointed out that his membership receives substantially higher wages than Harvard workers, as 'well as free medical insurance, which Harvard workers do not receive. Yale-workers have gone on strike four times in the past 15 years, he said...