Word: elementals
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 as an independent union would not have been so risky. But now a hair-trigger situation exists...
Trust has been the pivotal element throughout Poland's four-month war of nerves. The unions have prevailed so far because they engender it and the regime does not. The government lost what little credibility it had ten years ago, when the army and police opened fire on rioting workers in Baltic seaports, killing at least 49. "It really started here in 1970," says an intellectual in Gdansk. "After 1970, both sides behaved differently." Tuesday is the tenth anniversary of that fateful day, and hundreds of thousands of Poles were expected to gather outside Lenin Shipyard's main...
...Gradually they lost their role in oil exploration and production, and now they are losing it in refining and the petrochemical industry. The companies were the buffer element between the producers and the consumers until we took the pricing matter into our own hands. I don't think that you can eliminate companies all of a sudden. They'll be there, but only with their technology and as a service operation...
...Absolute War in Our Streets" [Nov. 24], your reporters suggest that it is irresponsible for police officers to encourage citizens to arm themselves. If government cannot provide protection, what is the answer? Roll over and let the criminal element do whatever it chooses? Or take up arms and defend yourself, your family and your property...
...projected?" It Loses truth. It hurts when you start to project Chekhov to a thousand-seat theater. I wanted something even more intimate than Chekhov, yet I wanted something gigantic too...I try to combine the radio-film soundtrack technique with realistic Brechtian staging, bridged by an element of cinematic imagery...