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...Washington Monument and Boston and Philadelphia and Chicago and St. Louis and San Francisco and thousands of town squares and picnic grounds across the nation. The projectiles fired up and burst in the black summer night-magic bright sprays that looked like sudden sea anemones or supernovas, loud and martial with concussions, but fleeting and delicate. Eugene O'Neill once wrote about "the electrical display of God the Father." The fireworks of the Fourth were an explosive display of congratulation to America the idea...
...when international sales started to dry up in the face of slowing foreign economies and declining oil exploration. Also, the company lost a $90 million contract to provide pipelaying equipment for projects in the Soviet Union when President Reagan imposed economic sanctions in response to the declaration of martial law in Poland. That same year, the United Auto Workers mounted a 207 day strike against Caterpillar when the company tried to rein in its labor costs, which it claimed were $20 per man hour...
Poles registered their personal protests in many ways last week during the first elections held since martial law was declared in December 1981. Even so, most of the country appears to have participated in the voting for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local councils, despite calls for a boycott from leaders of Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. At a midnight press conference, jubilant government officials projected the total turnout at 75% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters. The regime had viewed the elections as a referendum on the leadership of Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
This film's art consists entirely of hiding the cynicism of its calculations under an agreeably modest and disarming manner. In this it is greatly aided by Ralph Macchio as the Kid and Noriyuki ("Pat") Morita as the apartment handyman who teaches martial arts and pacifistic wisdom to the 97-lb. weakling tired of being beaten up by the bullies at school. Robert Mark Kamen's script is developed with maddening predictability, and John G. Avildsen's direction is literal and ambling. Films like this are what the PG r ating is supposed to be all about...
...floor sweep of the building. Residents who did not respond had their doors broken down. On the roof, police cornered their quarry: Bogdan Lis, 31, a former leader of Solidarity, the outlawed trade union, and the No. 2 man in the antigovernment underground. He had been in hiding since martial law was declared...