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Dressed in his familiar baggy gray suit, Lech Walesa proudly led his delegation into Room 203 of the Warsaw district provincial court. As hundreds of sympathizers jostled one another outside, the Baltic labor leader slid an eight-page document across the long table. It was the charter of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the new Gdansk-based umbrella organization representing 36 independent unions from all over Poland. Judge Zdzislaw Koscielniok declared he would examine the charter for two weeks and then rule on its legitimacy. As Walesa departed from the drab sandstone building, cheering workers hoisted him on their shoulders and carried...
...City charter adopted...
...provincial governments. The provinces want to increase their control over economic resources, while retaining control over the all-important matter of language instruction. Trudeau was willing to concede some economic autonomy to them, particularly in the area of mineral rights, in return for their support for a new constitutional "Charter of Rights" that would vest additional powers in the federal government...
...very least a personal triumph for Pinochet, who had tailored the new constitution to his own specifications. The charter outlaws doctrines "founded in class struggle" (a code phrase for Marxism) and commits Chile to a free-market economy. And though it specifies a return to democracy, the pace it mandates is leisurely enough to keep Pinochet in office until 1989-and possibly eight more years after that-when open presidential elections must finally be held...
Vice President Mondale held its charter meeting in the White House on Tuesday. President Bok and 21 other university leaders, including Paul Gray of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, showed up to suggest how the administration should allocate the funds...