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...poultry to 69% on meat. Although many Poles concede that increases were necessary and long overdue, they expected them to be gradually imposed. Real wages had risen 7.1% annually since 1971, while prices of basic foodstuffs remained frozen, causing scarcities and a totally artificial price structure. But the brutal suddenness of the price hikes brought the workers into the streets once more. "It was as if the entire population had been thrown into the Baltic Sea in the middle of December," observed a Western diplomat...
...Edges. This odd, disjointed Down Under western tries to duplicate the rough edges of a folk ballad, placing Morgan's exploits in a context that is both romantic and social. Much time is expended depicting the primitive qualities of colonial justice, while government authorities are depicted, predictably, as brutal lunatics. Superintendent Cobham of the Victorian police (played with flush, fruity menace by Frank Thring) supervises Morgan's eventual capture and execution, then ships his head to an anatomy professor in Melbourne. The professor has a curious theory-he thinks Morgan could be half ape. The superintendent keeps Morgan...
...strategy, the dismantling of white minority regimes on its borders cannot help but encourage renewed struggle on the part of those on whom the overthrow of apartheid must ultimately depend--the blacks and coloreds of South Africa, who have already shown tremendous courage in resisting the humiliations of a brutal and racist police state...
...THIRD ANNIVERSARY of the destruction of Chilean democracy and socialism approaches, we are violently reminded of the fact by the brutal assassinations last week in Washington of Orlando Letelier, former Chilean ambassador to Washington and foreign minister under Allende, and Ronnie Karpen Moffitt, a teacher and staff member of the Institute for Policy Studies, where Letelier also worked. The assassinations mark an important point in U.S. relations with the Third World. For the first time ever, a major leader of a Third World resistance movement has been murdered in the United States. For the first time in living memory, assassins...
...Brutal Talk. The Secretary did not find many opportunities for jocularity in his attempt to head off by negotiation the racial Armageddon that seems to be looming in southern Africa. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere had announced that he was not "particularly encouraged" by Kissinger's mission. Zambia's President Kenneth Kaunda had declared that Kissinger might have "only a few days, not weeks," to succeed in averting a black-white...