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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Communist Party Chief Edward Gierek. State television was filled with patriotic World War II films and other uplifting programming, such as an interview with a bemedaled old general who said he had known Jaruzelski since the Battle of Monte Cassino in World War II. (The man was mistaken; Jaruzelski fought in the Soviet army as it marched through Poland and on to Berlin. See box.) He sang the leader's praises and assured viewers that Jaruzelski was an honest soldier who did not have it in his nature to be a dictator...
Mobil's bid for Marathon seemed doomed almost from the start. The company suffered defeat after defeat in a series of legal battles fought on several fronts. Last week a federal district court judge in Cleveland again upheld his own decision that the Mobil takeover would reduce competition among gasoline retailers in the Middle West and should not be permitted. Only a few days earlier, another federal court judge in Columbus denied Mobil's request to stop U.S. Steel's offer for Marathon...
Strikers holding the Lenin shipyard in the Baltic port of Gdansk fought with security forces yesterday after Polish troops overran the installation. Warsaw radio reported 160 police and 164 civilians injured...
History has repeated itself several times in Poland, and this manifestation is no less tragic than previous encounters with crackdowns, invasions and oppression. No one has fought for freedom more feverishly than the ten million members of Solidarity, and they have paid a heavy price. It is one of the saddest ironies that for many Eastern bloc nations today, the price of freedom often exceeds the cost of repression...
Last week in the decrepit Chicago Amphitheater, in the middle of the stockyards, Joe and Floyd ("Jumbo") Cummings fought to a melancholy ten-round draw. Frazier may still shake buildings, but what once would have been lethal lefts did not move Jumbo, a muscle-bound 30-year-old ex-convict, who almost knocked Joe out three different times. Joe's left eye was blackened, his lower lip was frayed, his face was starting to lose definition just like in the old days, and he felt wonderful. "It was worth it to me," he said. "When I got shook...