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...Culture, was the first major rock festival to be held in the Soviet Union. Officials have painfully mixed feelings about pop culture and its musical expression, sometimes denouncing it as decadent, sometimes going along. When the Yerevan festival was approved, young Soviets came from as far away as the Baltic republics, central Russia and even Siberia. They luxuriated in the distinctive sounds of such national pop superstars as Stas Namin, 30, Gunnar Graps, 29, and his Magnetic Band, and Valeri Leontiev, 32, a booted, bolero-suited dancing rocker whose performance falls somewhere between those of Mick Jagger and Mikhail Baryshnikov...
...count all these agreements. We must begin to analyze them to see which ones can be carried out." As Walesa put it in an interview with BBC-TV last week: "If we go on strike now, we'll destroy ourselves and the economy." Nonetheless, dockers on the Baltic coast and employees of the LOT national airline were threatening new strikes this week...
Once more the strike sirens were wailing across Poland. First, 35,000 dockers at Baltic seaports from Gdansk to Szczecin walked off their jobs for an hour. The men were demanding improved working conditions and benefits. Next day, most of the 6,000 employees of LOT, the national airline, quit working for four hours. Reason: they claimed the right to name the airline's new director. (At week's end the LOT employees accepted the government's appointee as "president" but insisted that their candidate actually run the airline.) Finally, transport workers in the northwestern city...
...wail at 8 a.m., and for the next four hours all Poland held its breath. In Warsaw, trams and buses draped with red-and-white national flags sat idle in their barns. In Silesia, brawny coal miners folded their arms and refused to descend into the mines. In the Baltic port of Gdansk, where last summer's strikes first launched Poland on its present, breathtakingly dangerous course, shipyard workers laid down their welding torches and rivet guns...
...Baltic seaport of Gdansk, sirens wailed to signal the start of a four-hour "warning strike" that interrupted public transport and shut down more than 800 plants. In Warsaw, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered defiantly over idle buses and streetcars as drivers joined workers from some 60 local factories and offices in a related half-day stoppage. On the outskirts of Bydgoszcz, 140 miles northwest of the capital, police turned back columns of angry tractor drivers who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the middle of the town. The snowballing protest climaxed on Saturday, when millions of workers...