Word: alertness
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...Ustrzyki Dolne in southeast Poland staged a one-hour warning strike. The walkouts were in support of a sit-in at local government offices to protest police harassment of organizers for Solidarity and its peasant counterpart, Rural Solidarity. Meanwhile, in Jelenia Gora, in the southwest, workers announced a "strike alert" for next week unless a government team was dispatched to discuss their grievances, including a demand for the dismissal of a minister in charge of relations with the unions...
...limits of what we can pay," said Simone Veil, former French Health Minister before her election last year as President of the European Parliament. "European ministers know the problem full well, but they have not started to alert public opinion." The reluctance to bear such unpopular tidings is politically understandable. Among voters, the hunger for ever more social programs has become a virtual addiction. New generations of Western Europeans take for granted the benefits they have inherited-and demand more. It was easy enough for governments to comply during an era of rapid growth, when rising welfare costs were absorbed...
Brezhnev came through those difficulties physically more vigorous and politically more powerful than before. On his state visit to India earlier this month, he had to be helped up and down stairs, but otherwise looked alert and vital. In February he is expected to preside over the 26th Communist Party Congress, which will sing his praises as it sets the tone and direction of Soviet policy for the next five years...
...White House aide, delighted that the threat of an immediate Soviet invasion appears to have passed, declared last week in Washington: "Walesa has surpassed Wallenda in pulling off the biggest tightrope act in history." Nonetheless, Soviet divisions on the Polish frontier and in East Germany remained on top alert, ready to pounce if unrest flared-or if the Warsaw government of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania simply could not control the popular demand for more freedom and a better life...
...implicate the high military command, there was what the State Department called "circumstantial evidence of possible security force involvement." Among other things, TIME has learned, the still secret U.S. report notes that Salvadoran National Police Chief Carlos López Nuila neglected to put out an "all points alert" after the U.S. embassy told him that the four women were missing. Furthermore, Defense Minister José Guillermo García, an influential right-wing member of the government, promised but failed to order an alert even though he was specifically requested to do so by an aide to U.S. Ambassador...