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...raid on striking firemen sends tempers rising...
That show of strength by the authorities last week was directed against cadet firemen who had staged a peaceable eight-day sit-in at the academy. The cadets had been demanding the same academic reforms being sought by the estimated 100,000 students who had gone on strike at 80 institutions of higher education in Poland...
...also a sign that the Polish Politburo, while as cautious as ever in handling the student rebellion and the wave of wildcat strikes that has swept the country in the past two months, could be pushed only so far. The cadets received such firm treatment because firemen in Poland are subject to military discipline and, like police forces, are under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...
...chair. Hinckley, 26, hung for several minutes before a frantic marshal could climb an exterior wall and reach through a window to cut him loose from outside. For the next half-hour Hinckley lay on his cell floor, blue-faced and convulsive for lack of oxygen, before firemen using a hydraulic bolt cutter could get through the cell's bars. Again the loser had been unsuccessful: two days later Hinckley was in satisfactory condition in the base hospital, watching TV. But the possibility that he had suffered brain damage was not ruled out. Says a Justice Department spokesman...
...fire department sent three engine companies, two ladder trucks, one rescue truck and a deputy to the Castle. Five firemen, three of whom carried axes, went upstairs in the building to confirm that there was no fire...