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...faltering; the adversaries are more threatening and the have-nots more demanding. Military power and its illicit offspring, terrorism, threaten to break all restraints. Firm decisions elude American strategists on nuclear security. Recession continues and worries deepen over the impact of budget and tax cuts. Decline in the auto, steel and building industries spills over to small business, farming and credit...
...Church in Warsaw, where people could learn what happened to relatives and friends and could even arrange to send them parcels. Priests were being allowed into a few of the camps. Some detainees told horror stories of the brutality of the militia, whose members sometimes carry special steel-cored nightsticks capable of breaking bones...
...Agreement on Tariffs and Trade in Geneva, warned that new forms of trade barriers are being established for both industrial products and raw materials. Said he: "With the exception of tropical products, some sporting goods and a few minor manufactured items, all the major areas of international trade-agriculture, steel, textiles, synthetic fibers and other petrochemical products-are already under cartel systems. The situation is politically dangerous because it is bound to increase tensions between countries." Next week top-level representatives of the U.S., the European Community, Japan and Canada will meet in Florida to discuss growing international-trade problems...
...Poles killed in the food riots of 1970. Last week, shortly after the army and police had broken a strike by shipworkers protesting martial law and the arrest of hundreds of Solidarity's leaders, the gate was closed again. In the shadow of the three soaring steel pillars of the new monument now stood an armored personnel carrier, a symbol of the million bayonets that seem forever poised against a surging nationalism. Jaruzelski had announced that the country would henceforth be run by a 21-member junta, the "military council for national salvation." He declared a "state...
...more alarming, TIME'S board stressed that the developing downturn is no longer confined largely to housing and autos, but has now spilled over into so-called feeder industries like steel, machine tools, building supplies and, through them, into the national economy as a whole. Figures released last week by the Federal Reserve Board showed that industrial production dropped by 2.1% in November, the fourth monthly decline in a row. That was the largest one-month slump since May of 1980, and was a clear signal that worse difficulties are still to come. Meanwhile, the Fed also reported that...