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...show of popular force to pressure the regime into resuming its abandoned dialogue with the suspended union. In an orchestrated scare campaign, the authorities have vowed to meet force with force. Jaruzelski told party chiefs from more than 200 factories that "brawlers have no chances." On television, Interior Minister General Czeslaw Kiszczak boasted that the state was well prepared to maintain order. Said he: "Those who incite disturbances must take into account bloodshed and jeopardizing of human life." Meanwhile, the government began deploying riot troops and water cannons at such expected gathering points as Warsaw's Castle Square. Tensions...
...still uneasy about the tax bill. "I couldn't quite imagine people in my district slapping me on the back and saying, 'Hey, thanks for raising my taxes.'" Treasury Secretary Donald Regan called, as did Caspar Weinberger of Defense and James Watt of Interior. The White House's political operatives pointed out that with his Democratic opponent having recently been arrested for drunk-driving, Hartnett faced an easy election this fall. "Come on, Tommy," they insisted, "you can afford this vote." Two hours before balloting began, Energy Secretary James Edwards, a fellow South Carolinian...
Given last week's vicious attack and the recent increase in terrorist incidents, the Mitterrand government has begun to reconsider its lenient policies. Gaston Defferre, Minister of the Interior, has called for a redefinition of the right to political asylum, and the French Cabinet is scheduled to produce a report this week on improving internal security. It will not appear a moment too soon for Paris Mayor Jacques Chirac. Says he: "Paris has become a hunting ground...
France's inability to protect the Turkish diplomatic community from terrorist attack has outraged the Ankara government. Turkish-French relations were further strained last April by a speech that French Interior Minister Gaston Defferre gave at a ceremony in Marseilles honoring the Armenians who died in 1915. Said Defferre: "The French government recognizes the genocide of which the Armenian people have been victim." The Turkish Foreign Minister protested that Defferre was "contributing to an atmosphere that encourages Armenian violence...
During World War I, the Turks exterminated or deported virtually their entire Armenian population because they held the unfounded suspicion that members of the ethnic group were disloyal. The decision to undertake the genocide was communicated to the local leaders by the Interior Minister, Talaat Pasha, in 1915. One of his edicts stated that the government had decided to "destroy completely all Armenians living in Turkey. An end must be put to their existence, however criminal the measures taken may be, and no regard must be paid to age, or sex, or to scruples of conscience...