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Ernst yesterday credited both of his 2-yd. touchdown plunges to the diligent execution of the Harvard offensive line. "With the line making the holes, when it came down to the goal line, it was just bread and butter," he said...
...government's right to "protect state and economic secrets." But more important was the question of whether the government would, or could, deliver on the spirit of the agreement. Even with the best of intentions, how could the regime, already economically strapped, deliver on its bread-and-butter promises? Would Warsaw really permit independent labor organizations to rival the party-controlled unions prescribed by Leninist dogma? If so, would Moscow tolerate such a challenge to the Communist Party's monopoly of power? Kania was reassuring in a speech before the Central Committee Friday night. Said he: "We shall...
...stars, of course: a John Travolta to put on his jeans for an Urban Cowboy or a Brooke Shields to take hers off for a Blue Lagoon. Sometimes the stars pick their producers and directors; in a Streisand production the only thing Barbra does not control is how much butter a patron pours on his popcorn-and she probably has firm opinions on that too. But in both television and films there are dozens of smaller roles that only the casting director can fill. For ABC's The Winds of War, one of the biggest mini-series ever made...
...they had done ten years ago, and again in 1976, the rebellious Polish workers were demanding higher pay and lower food prices. But this time, the strikers went far beyond those bread-and-butter issues by insisting on a number of sweeping political reforms. Among them: free labor unions that would have the legal right to strike, the abolition of censorship, and freedom for all political prisoners. In effect, they were asking for the unthinkable: that the Communist Party in a Communist state give up its monopoly of power...
Even before the strikers downed their tools in protest against prices and shortages, life was not easy for most Poles. In the cities, such commonplace items as fish, cheese, eggs, butter, fruit, vegetables and toilet paper are often hard to find...