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...other wildcat labor disputes, workers from 17 factories in and around Ustrzyki Dolne in southeast Poland staged a one-hour warning strike. The walkouts were in support of a sit-in at local government offices to protest police harassment of organizers for Solidarity and its peasant counterpart, Rural Solidarity. Meanwhile, in Jelenia Gora, in the southwest, workers announced a "strike alert" for next week unless a government team was dispatched to discuss their grievances, including a demand for the dismissal of a minister in charge of relations with the unions...
FRANCE. Because President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing faces re-election this spring, the French government is unlikely to be quite as tightfisted as its Bonn counterpart. Jean-Marie Chevalier, professor of economics at the University of Paris Nord, predicts that growth, which was 1.6% in 1980, will decline slightly to between .5% and 1% in 1981. Unemployment, now at 6.9%, could reach 8%. Progress against inflation will be small. After rising by 13.5% in 1980, prices this year will surge another 11% or more...
...ways of protesting the government's refusal to give it legal status. Under consideration are public demonstrations, sit-ins at local government offices and an interruption in food deliveries. Leaders of Rural Solidarity, as the movement is known, say that they will not call strikes unless their industrial counterpart approves, which is highly unlikely. Even so, the farmers have injected yet another substantial element of tension into the crisis. Said a West German Foreign Ministry specialist: "A month ago, even two weeks ago, an argument over the Warsaw court's decision not to register the farmers...
Fritz Campbell pinned his Mass. Maritime opponent in 1:57 and co-captain Tony Cimmarusti flattened his Huskie counterpart at 177 pounds in 2:30, thus registering Harvard's only pins...
...University of Georgia ended its regular season last weekend as the toprated college football team in the country, but things weren't always so good down in Athens. This Southern breed of Bulldogs got its name because the school's first president was a Yalie, and, like its northern counterpart in New Haven, once had to face a Harvard squad on the gridiron. The result: On October 15, 1921, Harvard came away with...