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...from the farmlands and foreign policy concerns. Though President Reagan had lifted in April 1981 the partial embargo on grain sales that had been initiated by Jimmy Carter after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, he also abruptly cut off talks for a new, multiyear grain deal with Moscow after martial law was imposed in Poland last December. Since the military crackdown in Poland is still in effect and European allies are squawking about U.S. opposition to helping build the Soviet natural gas pipeline, Reagan could hardly strike a long-term grain pact with the Soviet Union at this time...
...will continue our struggle for freedom and the independence of our motherland." It was a pointed reminder that the people had not abandoned their demands for greater freedom, despite the recent liberation of some 1,200 detainees and a vague promise from Party Boss General Wojciech Jaruzelski that martial law might be lifted by the end of the year...
...more active resistance in the future by Solidarity. A series of appeals, signed by Bujak and four other underground Solidarity leaders on July 28, began to circulate around the country. One set forth a twelve-point program for a resistance movement aimed at freeing the remaining detainees, lifting martial law and reestablishing Solidarity. Another called for making the union "exceptionally visible" between Aug. 16 and 31, the second anniversary of the strikes that culminated in Solidarity's founding...
Whether or not the Polish people dare respond to that call with widespread demonstrations, knowing that their jobs may be at stake, they have already made it clear that they are resigned neither to martial law nor to the permanent end of the democratic "renewal" that swept their nation for 16 months...
...gain of 10 Ibs. to be exact. The film over, the actress weighed in at the tony Sonoma Mission Inn near San Francisco for three weeks. There, in return for $4,725, she got 800 calories a day and a dawn-to-dusk dose of warmups, aerobics, slimnastics and martial-arts classes, plus visits to the Jacuzzi and herbal wraps (using herb-soaked Irish linen sheets). Olivia's gross loss to date: 12 Ibs. And she wants to lose five more. In Beverly Hills, says the longtime star, "the three-letter words are worse than four-letter words...