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Ties That Bind...
...would love to get out and see more events around the campus, but I'm in a bit of a bind this semester. You see, I signed up for Phys. 12 thinking it was Physical Education. I look forward to more of your stories. In fact, I get my Crimson delivered with page five...
...afford to ignore them. Petroleum is the lifeblood of their economic plans and political schemes. Though Moscow has told its East European allies to look elsewhere for additional oil, it still supplies 80% of the area's needs, and wants to continue to do so. The dependency helps bind the otherwise restless Poles, Czechs, East Germans and Hungarians to the U.S.S.R. At home, some conservation measures have been introduced, but the Kremlin would be unwilling to risk the unrest that might come from drastic cutbacks in government plans to expand industry and raise living standards. Abroad, oil sales enable...
...help coordinate nationwide samizdat, a publishing operation has been started by Scientist Miroslaw Chojecki. Called NOWA, an acronym for Independent Publishing House, Chojecki's printing establishment in a Warsaw apartment includes 20 typewriters, six crude presses and a skilled team of 30 people who help print, bind and distribute samizdat books. The workers charge nothing for their labor...
Having belatedly realized its difficult bind, the U.M.W. has asked the mine operators to begin continuous daily meetings, rather than the previously planned weekly talks, in order to see if some sort of compromise can be reached before the contract deadline. Convinced that the miners are just now getting their demands straightened out, the employers seem in no hurry to oblige. But the mine owners could overplay their hand. Paradoxically, the U.M.W.'s trump card is that a prolonged strike could destroy the national union, leaving owners to deal entirely with the fractious, wildcatting locals. It is a thought...