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...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 observed a nationwide job boycott ordered by Solidarity, the independent union federation. Across Poland last week, workers once again served notice that they would bitterly resist any attempt to roll back the rights they had won through a summer of crippling strikes...
...Canal Treaties, for the sale of F-15 advanced jet fighters to Saudi Arabia and for the lifting of the embargo on arms to Turkey. He was also dispatched to Europe to explain Carter's decision not to deploy the neutron bomb, and last year's Olympic boycott over the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan...
...Saturday work boycott renewed fears that Solidarity's escalating demands could bring on a Soviet invasion. These worries were heightened by the arrival in Warsaw last week of Soviet Marshal Viktor Kulikov, commander in chief of Warsaw Pact Joint Armed Forces. Western observers interpreted Kulikov's visit as both a gesture of support for the Kania regime and a warning to the restive workers. Some analysts speculated that Kulikov may have discussed plans for joint maneuvers on Polish soil-an operation that could serve as a cover for Soviet intervention...
...public. This is obviously no easy task, but there seemed to be some grounds for compromise. Before his departure for Rome last week. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa told reporters: "We do not want a strike and will be looking for better solutions." Another spokesman for the unions described the boycott of Saturday work this way: "Not as a confrontation, but as a first stage leading to an agreement...
...Lincoln. A hundred years later, it continued that process led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. For generations, white Americans had countenanced prejudice and discrimination and Black Americans, intimidated by violence and tradition, failed to take effective action. But when M.L. King agreed to head the Mont-gomery bus boycott people began to muster courage and hope. And only when he had the tactical sense and the courage to face the firehoses and dogs in Birmingham and Albany and Selma and across the South were the mass of Americans moved enough to take concrete action...