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Besides the traditional dances, students will perform different demonstrations in the martial arts such as Kung Fu and Tai Kwon...
Relations between Poland and the United States have been strained since General Wojciech Jaruzelski's government declared martial law in 1981. Last week President Reagan lifted the last of the economic sanctions he imposed five years ago against the Warsaw regime. The measures and Poland's own economic mismanagement had nearly halved U.S. imports of Polish goods, such as vodka and canned ham. Reagan praised Warsaw's more tolerant attitude toward the Catholic Church and political prisoners, hundreds of whom have been freed since martial law was ended in 1983. Both the church and the banned Solidarity trade-union movement...
This new phase has taken place even though there has been no major political improvement in the conditions that caused the sanctions in 1981. Actually, since martial law was declared, life for the Poles has worsened. Nearly 25 percent of the population live below the nation's poverty line. In a single decade the quality of life decreased by 30 percent...
...part of his fitness routine, Scola uses both the free weights and the Universal machines. He also takes aikido--martial arts--classes which are offered by the Athletic Department...
...powerful men were natural rivals. One was the head of the officially atheistic regime of Poland, the other the leader of the Roman Catholic Church. So last week when General Wojciech Jaruzelski made his first official trip to Western Europe since he imposed martial law in 1981, his meeting with Pope John Paul II showed little promise of yielding substantive results...