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...Jaruzelski went on the radio "as a soldier and the chief of the Polish government," to announce that the nation was under martial law. He later repeated the grim message on national television, dressed in full military uniform with the white Polish eagle prominently displayed behind him. The "growing aggressiveness" of Solidarity's "extremists" in the midst of an acute economic crisis, said Jaruzelski, had forced him to make his repressive moves "with a broken heart, with bitterness." He assured Poles that military rule would be temporary and that the process of "renewal" launched by Solidarity would be resumed once...
While the world was keeping a wary eye out for a Libyan attempt on President Reagan or some other U.S official, terror struck from a different, and unexpected, quarter. A few grim facts came in an anonymous telephone call to the ANSA news agency in Milan: "This is the Red Brigades. We have kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier. A communiqué will follow...
...grim news from Poland may intrude into the intimate moments of White House life this week. But Christmas, with its echoing cry for brotherhood, its pleas for peace on earth, is a necessary annual nourishment for the presidency, just as important in some ways as the tax receipts. The stage is magnificently set. Word has it that Ronald Reagan will add to White House cheer by singing a carol or two, and Nancy has told her household that there will be snow. The flakes that Jamie Wyeth created in October have been waiting around...
...millions of Americans it will be a bleak Christmas and a grim New Year, and not until many months into 1982 will people begin to see the first glimmerings of the supply-side economic prosperity that Ronald Reagan promised would be the hallmark of his Administration. Such was the sobering conclusion of TIME'S Board of Economists last week as it met in New York to survey the year now ending and the economic outlook for the one soon to begin...
...unemployment picture next year looks grim. In most economic downturns, joblessness continues to grow even after the economy starts to recover, and TIME'S board sees the pattern being repeated once again in 1982. By year's end, the board expects unemployment to stand at 8.3% of the labor force after peaking at 9% during the second quarter of 1982. Such a jobless rate would match that of the 1973-75 slump as the worst in the postwar...