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Perez de Cuellar s visit to Angola later in the week was also mildly encouraging. Angolan President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos told the Secretary-General that a Cuban troop withdrawal might be possible under certain conditions. Among his demands: that South Africa halt its military support for guerrillas of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and agree to Namibian independence...
...American garment industry has been frustrated in its efforts to halt imports. In deciding a fortnight ago to allow Chinese shipments to grow about 3% a year, the Reagan Administration gave Peking only half the amount that it had wanted, but further angered U.S. manufacturers nonetheless. Complains Mac Levy, executive director of the New York Coat and Suit Association: "The Administration hasn't done anything but hurt us all along the line...
...Bethesda and Silver Spring. The farmer gets paid, his land is protected from builders, since the development rights have already been sold, and the construction firm gets to build more rentable space in another part of the county. A similar scheme is being used in Dade County, Fla., to halt construction in the eastern Everglades, and rights from the Everglades can be transferred to communities like Key Biscayne, where development causes less environmental damage...
Andropov has already tried a variety of tactics to halt the economic stagnation that had set in during the last years of Leonid Brezhnev's rule. The results have been mixed. Soviet national income has grown at the rate of 4% this year, compared with 2.9% in 1982. Andropov can also take heart from what is expected to be the best grain harvest since 1978. According to U.S. analysts, the yield may reach 200 to 210 million metric tons, well above the average of 177 million metric tons over the past four years. Still, the Soviet Union will...
...everything. Why prowl about expensive London or wander through old castles and ruined coliseums, when close at hand you have bright, invigorating scenes? I have made five trips to the U.S. and loved every minute. I am pushing 90, but still hope to reach Idaho before fate cries halt...