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...would be released by the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski by the beginning of this week, among them Zbigniew Bujak, leader of the Solidarity underground who was captured in May after hiding out for 4 1/2 years, and Wladyslaw Frasyniuk, another well-known opposition figure, who was serving a three-year sentence for trying to organize a general strike. Said Solidarity Founder Lech Walesa: "I am happy about...
...criticize U.S. policies on human rights, disarmament and the military-industrial complex. "We would never do five-page reports like Heritage because the problems the country faces are too serious, and we have too much respect for the legislators," says Director Robert Borosage. Nevertheless, when I.P.S. completes a planned three-year, multimillion-dollar expansion, it intends to hold more congressional briefings and press briefings. "We want to take a much more visible role," says Borosage...
Enter Ronald Reagan, voicing his rage against the tax system during the 1980 campaign. But the new President at first wanted not to reform but simply to slash. In the process, however, he unintentionally helped boost the case for reform. When he sent his three-year, 25%-rate-cut plan to Congress in 1981, the Administration got trapped in a bidding war with Democrats led by, among others, Rostenkowski. So many breaks for business were loaded into the bill that it became a monstrosity. To take the worst example, real estate profited so enormously that a 1983 Treasury study concluded...
...There were people who were getting ready for work who got called at 5 a.m. and told not to come in," said waitress Sherry Marshall, a three-year veteran of the Harvard Square coffee shop. "[The management] was very cruel about...
...Italy, former Prime Minister Bettino Craxi, a Socialist, created a capitalist renaissance that appears likely to last. During the three-year rule of Craxi, whose government fell last month, the country's mood had changed. Says Arrigo Levi, one of the country's best-known journalists: "There is a new belief in market forces, in private enterprise, in the value of work itself, and that has been accompanied by a crumbling away of the idea that the state owes you a living...