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...outside, which had been severed in an effort to isolate Gdansk. The strikers promptly used their newly restored communications to coordinate their actions with other strike centers and even dispatched delegations to proselytize in the interior of the country. Soon new strikes were reported in such cities as Wroclaw, Lodz and Rzeszow, raising the ante and putting added pressure on the Jagielski team...
...Gdansk upheaval capped a seven-week wave of strikes in Poland, most of them protesting the sharp rise in meat prices since July 1. More than 200 factories and enterprises have been affected by unrest in such cities as Warsaw, Lublin, Lodz and Wroclaw. Since the strikes began, the government has offered pay increases totaling some $117 million, but has refused to lower meat prices...
Other flourishing samizdat periodicals include Bratniak (Fraternity), a student publication produced in the port city of Gdansk, Postep (Progress), a magazine devoted to the problems of Poland's farmers, and Puls (Pulse), a literary journal from Lodz that was devoted this month to official censorship in the Polish movie industry...
...addition to the Warsaw operation, the government has permitted similar gieldy samochodowe (automobile exchanges) in Gdansk, Wroclaw and Lodz. For some Sunday salesmen, business could not be better. At the Warsaw mart, one enterprising Pole had already sold five cars for profits ranging from $150 to $1,000. He needs the money. In the best capitalist tradition, he is working his way through college...
...mood vivace, and the results bravisslmo. It is the first of a hoped-for series of volumes, written without the aid of a ghost writer. If Rubinstein's memory has romanticized the past and his prowess, no matter. The book spans his early life from his birth in Lodz in 1887 through the spring of 1917 when, as the author confidently puts it, "I had gained the necessary hold on my career...