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...government's brutal response left hundreds of workers dead and forced the resignation of Communist Party Leader Wladyslaw Gomulka. His successor, Edward Gierek, had good cause to reflect upon those events last week. The workers of Gdansk were up in arms again: 16,000 angry employees of the Lenin Shipyard went on strike and occupied the sprawling complex. They were soon joined by bus drivers and workers at some 17 other factories, and the number of strikers swelled to more than...
...places-militiamen standing in a clump of shrubbery or on the side of a hill, as if wherever they had landed they were obliged to stand up and assume their duties. Around the athletic facilities, the constabulary and army were heavily concentrated. The first seats of the stands in Lenin Stadium were taken up with an unbroken oval of military personnel-the Soviets making sure that there would be no such shenanigans as Chrystie Tenner running out to embrace her husband after his decathlon win in Montreal, or the Finns getting onto the track with their flags to run with...
...Wyoming rancher pointed out that, despite the massive press of uniformed personnel, he had noticed very few weapons. In fact, the only guns he had seen in Moscow were the rifles carried by the two soldiers goosestepping slowly to their posts at the door of Lenin's mausoleum...
...missed the race-got the day wrong, or the time. I heard enough about it -that Intourist had taken a hand and got permission for the 40 contestants to run in a restricted area along the river at the foot of the Lenin Hills where Premier Kosygin, slowly followed by a black limousine, walks his dog. The runners were followed by an ambulance...
...tourist group in Leningrad last week began singing God Bless America in the hotel bar - "It made us feel good," one of them told me - and last night about 20 of them had planned to meet and sing the same song in Red Square, near the guards at Lenin's tomb. They thought better of it - which is fortunate, since demonstrations there are forbidden. They're thinking of singing in front of the American embassy...