Word: baltics
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...dawned cold and cloudy in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk-a morning of gloom that matched the city's mood. Gdansk (pop. 370,000) had seethed for days with resentment at the Polish government's sudden announcement of a dramatic rise in food prices, the more infuriating since it came just before Christmas. Now, at the Lenin Shipyards, grumbling workers spontaneously protested the hike by refusing to work. Before long, they decided to emphasize their anger by marching from the yards to Communist Party headquarters two miles away. Thus began a week of rioting and death that surpassed...
...citizens have noted the different situations in neighboring lands. Hungary, for example, has been making steady progress with a "New Economic Mechanism" that introduced capitalistic profit-and-loss into socialist planning. Gdansk, the former German city of Danzig, is only a short ferryboat ride from Swedish Malmo across the Baltic, and is regularly invaded by fun-loving Swedes seeking beaches, booze and beaming blondes who are a soft touch for hard currency. West Germans are so obviously affluent that Poles ask one another sarcastically which of the two nations lost World War II. Never rapier-sharp at best, Polish humor...
From thick forests and plains deep in Prussia to the fog-shrouded Baltic coast, the Warsaw Pact last week began the most massive military maneuvers in its history. A total of 100,000 men drawn from all seven member nations were being deployed under Russian command, in an exercise code-named "Brotherhood in Arms." At the same time, NATO started its biggest war games of the year, also involving 100,000 men, in the eastern Mediterranean area. Code-named "Deep Express," they involve air, land and sea forces from eight Western nations...
...rest of Europe. In 1939, for example, Adolf Hitler sent his Foreign Secretary, Joachim von Ribbentrop, to Moscow. As Stalin stood smiling in the background in a library in the Kremlin, Ribbentrop signed a nonaggression pact that facilitated the Russians' invasion of Finland and the annexation of the Baltic states and the Nazis' blitzkrieg against Poland that started World...
...attack force of eight vessels built around the new 18,000-ton helicopter carrier Leningrad moved through the North Atlantic toward the Norwegian Sea. There, two larger Soviet task forces lay in Wait to conduct a mock defense near the straits of Skagerrak and Kattegat, the approaches to the Baltic. In the Mediterranean, 45 ships conducted antisubmarine exercises. From the icy Barents and Okhotsk seas to the warmer reaches of the Indian and Pacific oceans, sleek Russian cruisers and black-hulled submarines carried out simultaneous exercises...