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...decisive moment had been reached in Poland's 15-month labor crisis and that the government--now military government--of Communist party chief and Prime Minister Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski decided it could no longer tolerate Solidarity's unprecedented and increasingly bold challenge to Communist rule amid widespread economic distress and persistent demands from the Soviet Union to firm up the "weak link" in the Warsaw Pact chain...
...Criticism. I thought of myself as a species of knight-errant attacking dragons singlehandedly and rescuing musical virtue in distress...
...harsh Baltic elements took an unexpected hand in the plot. Gale winds of up to 85 m.p.h. slammed towering combers against the sides of the sub, cascading tons of water on deck. The 50-man Soviet crew quickly decided it could stand no more. Red flares signaling distress whooshed up from the conning tower, and the radio put out the call "Mayday, Mayday." Under the sea's battering, the submarine developed a 17° list to starboard. The vessel's large electrical storage batteries threatened to leak acid that could fill the hull with poisonous chlorine...
Researchers must, however, report to the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) on what animals were used in the course of a year, and whether any animals were subjected to pain or distress. In 1980, the USDA reports, out of 1.6 million animals used in experimentation, more than 120,000 experienced pain or distress...
...diehards and the secret distress of detractors, Some Girls resurrected the band in 1978 after a fairly successful double album of live cuts had been released the year before. Some Girls had musical variety: borderline disco, r and b, rock and roll, tongue-in-cheek country. It was clever and spontaneous and well-received. But when Emotional Rescue followed a couple of years later, the disturbing message first heard on Exile was still there: maybe there really wasn't anything left for the Stones except frustration and guitarist's elbow...