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Secretary of State Alexander Haig took the lead in discussions about El Salvador after the new Administration was inaugurated. This was the place to try to halt Soviet adventurism, he argued. Some White House advisers-including top Aides James Baker and Edwin Meese-were initially reluctant to initiate a highly visible foreign policy thrust while the Administration was trying to focus attention on its economic program. But they succumbed to the argument, put by one top presidential aide: "You can't abdicate the conduct of foreign policy no matter what the domestic priorities...
Even more devastating was Peking's decision last month to halt work on the second phase of the giant Baoshan Iron and Steel Works near Shanghai. That grandiose $5 billion undertaking, seen as the cornerstone of industrial modernization in China, was contracted in 1978 to various consortiums, including one headed by West Germany's Schloemann-Siemag AG. The scuttled portion of the project includes plans for a $650 million cold-rolling mill, to have been built jointly by Schloemann-Siemag and three other West German firms, a $425 million contract with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, and a $140 million...
...NOTEBOOK: Better's night went downhill after he left Hanover. His roommates ran into a snowstorm driving home from the contest in Better's car, and skidded to a halt somewhere in New Hampshire. Moments later, the car was struck by another car sliding down the road. Luckily, nobody was hurt. The driver of the other car? WHRB announcer Dennis Kennedy, who made his final hockey broadcast Saturday night. DARTMOUTH S. HARVARD 2 at Hanover, N.H. Harvard (11-14-1) 1 0 1-2 Dartmouth...
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Sommaripa urged the audience to sign a petition for the halt of the nuclear weapons race, saying, "one thousand signatures will attract the representatives' attention: ten thousand will probably change that representative's mind...