Polls shape policy as Poland taps public opinion
In an unusual move for a Communist state Poland uses the Public Opinion Polling Center to guide social policy. Surveys cover wages prices unions economy and housing and are published even when unfavourable. A price rise this year met muted opposition as polls signaled acceptance and wage pressure trends.
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Warsaw
Poland
Europe
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Communist Party
Jaruzelski
U.N. General Assembly
West Germany
Stanislaw Kwiatkowski
Kwiatkowski
Expert urges more unmanned weapons in U S defense
Pentagon research chief Donald Hicks calls for at least a 10 percent boost in smart weapons funding. He cites Lebanon 1983 losses to Soviet missiles and argues for laser spotters and self-dropping pod systems to extend reach and reduce human risk.
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Washington
United States
Defense Department
Donald A. Hicks
Pentagon
Lebanon
Hicks
Navy
Aerospace
Reagan
ARMY
Defense
Caspar W. Weinberger
U.S
Harold Brown
Oldest known dental filling found in Nabatean warrior
An Israeli archaeologist reports a 2200 year old Nabatean warrior skull containing the world's oldest intact dental filling. A bronze wire filled the cavity to stop tooth worms, giving the tooth a green hue when bronze oxidized. The mass grave lay in the Negev Desert near Beer sheba. the man died around 200 B.C., aged 40 to 50, about 5 feet 6 inches tall.
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Jerusalem
Joe Zias
Israel
Department of Antiquities
Beersheba
Egypt
Palestine
Syria
Zias
B.C
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