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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...over the country to join forces in a 2 million-member organization that was loudly demanding legal status as an independent agricultural union. In Warsaw and other centers, union members and their advisers claimed that they were being subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw police for three hours. Meanwhile, an ugly new outburst of anti-Semitic rhetoric was added to the apparent campaign to discredit the independent labor movement (see box). Faced with this array of potential flash points, Walesa and Jaruzelski agreed to resume their high-level dialogue possibly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Cracks in the Truce | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...torturers and murderers of "Polish patriots." Declared a former soldier in Poland's Home Army: "Those Jewish nationalists made a bloodbath. Let us block the way to power of the next generation of Zionists." Handbills with the slogan KEEP SOLIDARITY POLISH named the alleged Zionists: KOR Activist Adam Michnik and Solidarity Spokesman Karol Modzelewski, both identified as Jews...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Searching for Scapegoats | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...Indonesians blame on Peking. Also, like other Southeast Asian nations, Indonesia has an economically prosperous minority of ethnic Chinese that is widely resented and mistrusted by the rest of the population. As a result, anti-Chinese sentiment is always just beneath the surface of Indonesian politics. Explains Vice President Adam Malik: "We've always seen a danger from both the Soviet Union and China. For a long time we were not sure which was the most threatening. However, since the Vietnamese invasion of Cambodia and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, we realize the immediate threat is from the Soviet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: The Soviets Stir Up the Pacific | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

...fans at Bright. From the "sieve" cheer right down to Adam Beren's cowbell, Section 13 and company supplied more of a home-ice advantage than Harvard's had in many years. Screw...

Author: By Mike Bass, | Title: Some Good News and Some Bad News | 3/19/1981 | See Source »

Sophomore Adam Beren--the team's standout' in terms of sheer strength and the most improved player back from last year will be the number three singles position. Mike Terner and his renowned backhand will follow Berne--who played at five and six last year--in the fourth slot...

Author: By Janie Smith, | Title: Netmen Psyched for California Slate | 3/17/1981 | See Source »

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