Word: communique
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Solidarity organizers, however, read the mourners' show of defiance as a signal for the union to enter "a new phase of struggle." In a communiqué that reached Western newsmen in Warsaw Saturday, five underground leaders called for stepped up strikes and demonstrations, culminating in an "ultimate" nationwide walkout next spring. Charging that the regime was "deaf to the nation's needs," they urged workers to begin with a day-long work stoppage on Nov. 10, the second anniversary of Solidarity's registration in court. In Gdansk, Walesa's wife Danuta reported that her husband...
...Taiwan. More than three decades after Mao Tse-tung's takeover of the mainland, the Nationalist government on the island still calls itself the Republic of China. Peking, on the other hand, regards Taiwan as a province under the sovereignty of the People's Republic. The Shanghai Communiqué that Nixon and Chou En-lai approved in 1972 was essentially an agreement to disagree, and to do so quietly. The U.S. did not dispute Peking's claim to the island but reserved the right to continue dealing with Taipei...
...Peking has seemed unwilling either to give Reagan credit for coming a long way or to cooperate with him in putting the Taiwan issue on the back burner. The Chinese have chosen instead to keep the heat on. Reagan defended his approval of the Shanghai II communiqué against right-wing critics by pointing out that the U.S. promise to reduce arms sales to Taiwan was linked to China's commitment to peaceful resolution of the island's future. The Chinese Communist Party daily Renmin Ribao attacked the President for "completely violating" the spirit of the communiqu...
...Indeed, there were questions about why the spiritual leader of the world's largest Christian body would meet openly with the commander of an organization that has in the past endorsed terrorism as a tactic. John Paul kept the 20-min. audience low key; according to the Vatican communiqué, he told Arafat of his "constant concern to favor the difficult process of peace in the Middle East...
Status of East Jerusalem. Reagan urged "participation by the Palestinian inhabitants of East Jerusalem in the election" of a self-governing authority for the West Bank and Gaza. The Israeli communiqué says that Jerusalem is not mentioned in Camp David and that such voting would in effect lead to its repartitioning. True, Jerusalem is not cited in the accords, but the accompanying Egyptian and American letters clearly indicate that two of the parties do not acknowledge Israel's authority over the entire city...