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...most feared and hated of the security forces are the 20,000 to 25,000 troops known as ZOMO, the Polish acronym for motorized police units. They take their orders directly from the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In December's crackdown, while the army cordoned off the trouble spots, ZOMO units broke up most of the demonstrations that took place after Jaruzelski imposed martial law. In Gdansk they burst into the Lenin shipyards to end a sit-in by the workers who had launched the independent Solidarity trade union in August 1980. When coal miners in the Wujek...
...nation, by the sons and brothers of Solidarity members. The Polish army was the last official institution with any popular trust. That is finished now. Even the cowed population of Warsaw openly shows its hatred. Obscene gestures are made at passing armored columns. The Poles have taken the acronym of the ruling military council WRON, and added an A to produce WRONA, crow in Polish. "Crow" was what Poles called the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, after the stylized eagle on the Gestapo emblem. Silhouettes of crows are popping up around Warsaw, and swastikas are being drawn on the frosty...
...September the Sandinistas declared a "state of economic emergency," banning strikes, profiteering and the distribution of news or information deemed to be injurious to the economy. The government also increased its attacks against the Superior Council of Private Enterprise, known by its Spanish acronym COSEP, which represents the beleaguered 50% of Nicaraguan private enterprise that has not been nationalized since the 1979 revolution...
Once a month, a special group of 18 top SRI professionals in fields as varied as urban planning, chemistry and energy meet to mull the future in a paneled conference room overlooking a leafy courtyard. The program goes by the acronym of TEAM, which stands for Trend Evaluation and Monitoring. TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz last week became the first reporter ever permitted to attend an SRI brain-storming session. His report: hat in the world are Langmuir Blodgett films?" asked Beth Hiseler, senior office assistant. The question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped...
...kind of industrial revolution is brewing in the factories of American industry. It goes by the acronym of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/ Computer-Aided Manufacturing), and at its heart lies a wondrous, and immensely profitable, link between the electronic brain and the mechanical hand. It is a link that stretches from the designing room to the shop floor, and its simple aim is to boost sagging American industrial productivity. The key is the insertion of computer intelligence directly into every nook and cranny of industrial manufacturing, from product conceptualization to the myriad tasks of actual production. In so doing...