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Solidarity therefore resolved to overhaul the country's crumbling economic system and to share with the government in running it. "We wanted to make the authorities accountable to society," explained Bronislaw Geremek, Walesa's chief theoretician. As a start, the union decided to attack the corrupt and inefficient nomenklatura system, under which the government chose plant managers not for their skills but for their loyalty to the party. The union's stratagem: force the government to approve a system of self-management for the factories that would allow workers' councils to choose their own managers. Even Walesa was skeptical about...
...reducing production?especially in the coal-mining industry, whose output fell by nearly 10% in 1981. In addition, the country was soon swept by a spate of wildcat strikes over local issues. In some cases, Solidarity chapters were taking on the Communist Party bureaucracy by demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials or the conversion of party buildings to public hospitals...
Prince of the City. A corrupt New York cop (Treat Williams) further corrupts himself as he tries to expiate his crimes. Sidney Lumet has directed a fiercely acted and harrowing descent into paranoia's hellish center...
...which had anything to do with the class struggle. The working class in Russia, to the extent that it existed, ended up a bystander rather than a key actor. The old order that was cast onto the trash heap of history consisted of an enfeebled aristocracy and a corrupt officialdom rather than a fully developed bourgeoisie or capitalist class...
...legal problems of Labor Secretary Raymond Donovan are deepening A special prosecutor will probably be appointed this week to investigate allegations that Donovan witnessed an illegal payoff by his New Jersey construction firm to a corrupt union official in 1977. In addition, TIME has learned that investigators are looking into the possibility of perjury in Donovan's testimony at his confirmation hearing, when he claimed he had never met New Jersey Gangster Salvatore (Sally Bugs) Briguglio...