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...giant portraits of Mao and Stalin and Lenin and Marx that used to hang in Tien An Men Square have already begun to gather dust in a Peking warehouse and the Chinese are speaking a new language. Call it the language of capitalism or pragmatism or Deng but the vocabulary is different: market forces, decentralization, small-scale enterprise, "special economic zones." If you listen to the speeches long enough, the sounds coming from the Great Hall resemble a Raytheon board room more than a conference of command economy planners. "The only test now is whether it works," one young party...
That dramatic juncture in the unfolding epic of Poland's labor crisis last week took place at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk. It showed that the strike leaders had come to recognize the momentous perils and potentially tragic consequences of what they had begun. Their emotional yet disciplined strike for rights, a grass-roots upheaval that was in many ways unprecedented in Moscow's postwar fiefdoms of Eastern Europe, had left Poland teetering on a tightrope...
...flags fluttered in the faint breeze off the Baltic Sea, giving Gdansk the festive look of a holiday. But traffic was only a trickle of the normal midday rush. At high noon on a working day, the streets were almost empty of people. The only crowd converged on the Lenin Shipyard, the center of the strike and the focal point of the nationwide crisis. TIME Eastern Europe Correspondent Barry Kalb visited the strike scene...
...Communist Party member from a nearby factory suddenly grabbed a silver Crucifix and held it aloft. "I swear on this Cross that I am with you," he cried. The Crucifix was later placed on the front wall, slightly higher than the statue of the shipyard's namesake, Nikolai Lenin...
...born speaker," Lech Walesa shouted to hundreds of people gathered outside the gates of the Lenin Shipyard. "I'm just a simple worker, so forgive me if I use simple language." Simple it may be, but it is the language the striking workers of Poland's Baltic coast understand and respond to. In the three weeks since the Gdansk strike began, Walesa (pronounced Vah-wen-sah) has become an authentic hero. Wherever he walked across the idle yard, workers would break into spontaneous applause. A few would run up for his autograph. Each evening when he climbed...