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...hours after the storming of Nowa Huta, riot police and militia began cordoning off the shipyard in Gdansk, which had been occupied by as many as 3,000 striking workers for the previous three days. The plant management broadcast an announcement warning nonstriking employees, some of whom had continued to report to work, to remain at home until further notice. As the morning wore on, crowds of curious onlookers gathered behind police lines at the main shipyard gate, near the steel monument of three crosses erected by Solidarity in memory of workers killed in antigovernment protests there in 1970. Inside...
...Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were the recent violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as other issues fueling the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. American TV once again was playing diplomat as well as journalist. And if the results were unlikely to be as dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought...
...many prime-time shows as the supply of original programs runs out. The networks have dropped 22 scheduled episodes in all, including the season's last new episodes of L.A. Law and The Cosby Show. Moonlighting scrapped its special-effects finale, some ten minutes of which was to be broadcast in 3-D. That has left one of its sponsors, Coca- Cola, with 40 million unused pairs of 3-D eyeglasses it had planned to distribute...
Reagan warned Iran in his weekly radio broadcast Saturday that continued attacks on neutral parties, including gulf shipping, "will be very costly to Iran and its people...
...programs which highlight this week include displays of books on the Holocaust and distribution of a bibliography of Holocaust literature at city libraries, special instruction at high schools which deals with the Holocaust and issues of prejudice, and the performance of "Grafitti," which will also be broadcast on local cable television...