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...Gdansk workers tacked a number of political demands onto their calls for a $67-a-month pay increase and a rollback of meat prices. Among them: the establishment of more representative trade unions and the building of a monument to the 49 Gdansk workers killed during the 1970 riots. Seeking to avoid another bloody confrontation, officials at first showed a surprising willingness to negotiate, even at the risk of conferring a de facto legitimacy on the right to strike. Hours after the Gdansk action began, the state-controlled press reported that the government had offered a $40-a-month...
This summer, the Statue of Liberty national monument is displaying a photographic exhibit prepared by eight institute members with $36,000 in grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Council for the Humanities. Its theme: varied places of origin of U.S. immigrants in the 19th century...
...infernal place of Gila monsters, scorching earth, mesquite and giant cactus. For centuries, the section of southern Arizona now designated as the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument has been crossed by people risking death in hope of finding a better life: Spanish explorers, missionaries, men drawn by California gold. They come now, still seeking the golden dream, from Mexico and Central America, an illegal but relentless stream. Last week the desert-beautiful to those who know it, deadly to the unprepared-claimed 13 more victims...
...knee. The broken left leg did not prevent her from giving several benefit performances for the Haifa Theater, nor from taking her first tour of Old Jerusalem. Unfortunately, the star-struck local press easily matched her pace every limp of the way. Plagued by reporters at Jerusalem's monument to the Holocaust victims, the actress exploded: "You won't even let me cry by myself! People don't follow me around...
...devotion to Writer Henry Lewes. Not only was the author of Middlemarch scorned at many a Victorian's table, but she was denied her final desire: burial in Westminster Abbey's Poets' Corner, where writers from Chaucer to the Brontës have a monument or tomb. A week ago, Eliot at last got her place among the poets. In a centennial observation of her death, a black memorial stone was set in the Abbey floor and dedicated to Mary Ann Evans (pen name George Eliot), the maverick Victorian in whose hands, said one speaker, "the novel...