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Despite their ideological differences, members of the Marxist-Leninist Party have provided the week-long string of rallies with a touch of the dramatic as they perform and re-perform a morality play showing Mean Ole Uncle Sam deceiving the ignorant army recruit with the blather-headed aid of Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan...
Saturday's 11:30 a.m. matinee drew a polite round of applause from onlookers, as recruits-turned-revolutionaries bayoneted the three villains into submission. But at a demonstration organized by Vietnam veterans several days ago, one vet said, "I don't think what they [the Marxist-Leninist] have to say has a hell of a lot to do with what we are saying...
...only fighting broke out when two young, male pedestrians argued with and then assaulted several of the picketers in two unrelated incidents. Cambridge police removed one man for his own safety, after he twice attacked a member of the Marxist-Leninist Party who was carrying a sign mocking President-elect Ronald Reagan. Police said the man would not be arrested...
Walesa proved equally adept at hard-nosed political bargaining. After eight days of tense face-to-face negotiations with Polish Deputy Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, he won a historic agreement that made Poland the only Communist country to have independent trade unions. It was a daring deviation from Marxist-Leninist orthodoxy that potentially challenged the Communist Party's monopoly of power and set a dangerous precedent for the rest of the East bloc...
...paradox could hardly be more striking. Poland, a Soviet bloc country whose economy is based on Marxist-Leninist dogma, is appealing to the capitalist West for financial aid. Warsaw has asked Washington, to which it is already in hock for $ 1.2 billion in assorted credits, for another $3 billion in assistance. The Polish government clearly needs the cash: it must pay off foreign lenders and continue to finance the food imports required to keep the Poles from becoming more restive than they...