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Walesa's next stop was the southern textile center of Bielsko-Biala, where strikers demanding the ouster of corrupt local officials had shut down 120 factories and paralyzed most of the surrounding province since Jan. 27. At midweek the provincial governor and three deputies submitted their resignations, apparently clearing the way for a solution. But Premier Jozef Pinkowski refused to accept the resignations immediately. With that, the talks broke off abruptly...
...week the turmoil intensified. In Frankfurt, the deutsche mark slumped to a three-year low of 2.16 to the dollar, forcing the West German Bundesbank and the U.S. Federal Reserve into an unusual rescue mission of the mark. The two central banks each sold $500 million in dollars at midweek to prop up the weakening West German currency. In Zurich, the Swiss franc dropped into a two-year trough of 1.95 to the dollar, and in Milan the Italian lira plunged to a record low of 1,019 against the dollar. At the same time, the declining value of gold...
...make regularly. If so, the ploy failed. At one point, to show that other countries worked on Saturdays, a government representative ineptly pointed out that French consumers could even buy cars on Saturday. Responded the Solidarity side: because of the perennial shortages of automobiles, Poles cannot buy them in midweek...
...problems of financial review knocked Clifford Hansen, former Wyoming Governor and Senator, out of the Cabinet. At midweek he seemed certain to be Secretary of the Interior; at week's end he suddenly removed himself from consideration. The key factor was that Hansen's wife and daughter have permits to graze cattle in Grand Teton National Park, which is run by the Interior Department. Said Hansen: "I presume we'd have to forgo using the permits, and that would put us out of business...
...Communists continued to criticize the government's relief efforts as inadequate. Prime Minister Arnaldo Forlani conceded that there have been "gaps of various kinds." But he insisted that the government has done "everything that is humanly and institutionally possible." Still, by midweek the government had all but abandoned Plan S, though not without claiming a moral victory. "The constant flow of food, clothes, tents and campers [into the affected area] has raised people's hopes," said Giuseppe Zamberletti, who heads the government relief operation. "A massive evacuation would have been more likely to take place had we failed...