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...aspirations and hope that had been inspired by the reform movement, however powerful the suasions and muscle of Poland's military regime. In Gdansk and other cities across the country last week, the union's supporters protested Solidarity's demise and ten months of martial law with a spontaneous wave of strikes and demonstrations...
...decreed the death of Solidarity, the 9 million-member independent union federation that for 16 months had shaken the entire Soviet bloc with its bold cry for freedom. That vote, approving a sweeping new trade-union law, finished the job that General Wojciech Jaruzelski had begun when he imposed martial law and suspended Solidarity last December...
...DIFFICULT to see the Irony in the Polish government's decision last Friday to officially ban the Solidarity Union. After all, since martial law was imposed in December, more than 600 Solidarity officials have been interned and the union's activities suspended. What, you could ask, was there left to outlaw...
...fame on TV's Kung Fu as the ascetic Shaolin priest who only used his prodigious powers in self-defense. But David Carradine, 41, is now trying to block the release of his latest martial-arts movie, Lone Wolf, with a well-aimed legal kick to its producers' fiscal throat. Carradine agreed to play the heavy in the film on condition that 1) he would not kill the woman, in this case sultry, almond-eyed Barbara Carrera; 2) he would not die; and 3) he would not get licked in hand-to-hand combat with the film...
...laborers will be paid a year's hard currency. The men will toil in isolation, separated from their families, the outside world and, increasingly, Nowak. He has decided it must be that way: it is December 1981, when, unknown to the three laborers, the Polish government has imposed martial...