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...strikes that recalled the dramatic 1980 movement that gave birth to the independent Solidarity labor union. In the northwestern city of Bydgoszcz, bus and tram drivers paralyzed the public transport system for twelve hours and won a 63% pay raise. Next day workers struck at the sprawling Lenin steel mill near the southern city of Cracow, while employees at a military-equipment plant in the southeastern city of Stalowa Wola reportedly won large wage demands after putting down their tools at week...
GDANSK, Poland--Riot squads stormed a strikebound steel mill in southern Poland yesterday and crushed a 10-day-old strike, and thousands of police surrounded a Gdansk shipyard in a tense standoff with defiant strikers...
...huge Nowa Huta steel mill in Krakow, riot police stormed sleeping steelworkers, hurled deafening percussion grenades and rounded up 38 people...
Government spokesman Jerzy Urban told a news conference that the decision to storm the steel mill was inevitable. "The majority wanted to work...We must protect our meager economic potential," he said...
...rare form of skin cancer that is sometimes associated with AIDS, his reaction was to fight the assault by the AIDS virus no matter what the cost in money or suffering. The co-owner of a successful Manhattan art gallery, he sold off paintings, two homes and an old mill, worth more than a million dollars -- a "war chest" for his battle against the disease...