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...coast, spread southward, and finally reached deep into the coal-mining heartland of Silesia. Before the strikes had ended, some 500,000 workers at over 500 enterprises had joined the peaceful but crippling revolt. The work stoppages had cost hundreds of millions of dollars, pushing the country to the brink of disaster and testing the limits of Soviet patience...
...week's end strike leaders and government negotiators announced agreement on "a formula designed to bring Poland back from the brink, hundreds of shipyard workers cheered, one of their leaders read a communiqué stating that they would be permitted to form an "independent, self-governing trade union." After speedy approval from the Communist Party Central Committee in Warsaw, the strike leaders indicated that they would order their followers back to work this week...
Detroit's experiences during the past 18 months, as Chrysler tottered on the brink of bankruptcy, also raise again the question of business's relations with Government. Chrysler continues to exist only because of federal aid. Talk of other business-Government agreements in the industry has already started. The Carter Administration has proposed that a group of auto, labor and Government leaders meet to discuss the industry's problems. Says Transportation Secretary Goldschmidt: "We value this industry, and we don't intend to let it fail." Ford President Petersen adds...
...power, to harden then-resistance to change. Ironically, while Nicaragua itself has been able to make considerable headway in consolidating its revolution-peacefully, thus far -a spiral of terrorist violence has escalated elsewhere. Lawless gunmen of both the left and right have brought El Salvador and Guatemala to the brink of civil war with an orgy of killings...
...help the French in Indochina in the weeks before Dien Bien Phu. Despite CIA adventuring around the world, despite the American-sponsored coups in Guatemala and Iran, despite that sunbathing Marine exercise on the Lebanese beaches in 1958, despite Foster Dulles' fondness for leaning far out over the brink, Eisenhower kept the nation out of war. In Nixon Agonistes, Garry Wills called Ike "a political genius." Nixon, for his part, recorded in his Six Crises that Eisenhower "was a far more complex and devious man than most people realized, and in the best sense of those words." (Those phrases...