Word: nationalizes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Mass strikes, demonstrations and riots exploded throughout Poland last summer, paralyzing the nation and provoking panic in Warsaw, dismay in Moscow. The immediate cause of the uprising was a dramatic increase in food prices, but the roots of the rebellion lay deep in the dissatisfaction of the fiercely independent Polish people with Soviet-imposed Communist rule...
...This time, the present Polish party boss, Edward Gierek, survived the riots by immediately rolling back prices. Still, lingering discontent in Poland, tied to a worsening economic crisis, has produced the classic formula for rebellion. TIME Correspondent Henry Muller recently visited Poland to gauge the public mood as the nation entered what threatens to be a long turbulent winter. His report...
...cold autumn days grow shorter, Eastern Europe's largest nation (after the Soviet Union) is headed for its most difficult year since 1970. In the late afternoon, outside one of the new Western-style supermarkets in Warsaw, a line of people 20 yds. long extends out the door and into the chilly darkness. It is mostly women, bundled in heavy coats and woolen scarves, their cheeks turned crimson by the subfreezing temperature. It is the ubiquitous meat queue, the most common symbol of Poland's political and economic malaise...
...tobacco with a hollow paper mouthpiece. Younger Russians tend to smoke a Western-style (though stronger than U.S. brands) filter tip. Despite all the evidence linking it with lung cancer, heart disease and respiratory ailments, smoking has been rising steadily in the U.S.S.R. Alarmed by this threat to the nation's health, Soviet officials recently began a tough antismoking campaign that rivals the vigorous efforts in the West-and is encountering the same resistance...
DISPOSABLE BOTTLES. Until Democratic Senatorial Candidate Don Riegel acknowledged having had an affair with an office worker in 1969, the greatest interest in the Michigan election was stirred by a proposition to ban throw-away bottles and cans, which make up an increasing proportion of the nation's litter. Disposable-bottle bans are also on the ballot in Colorado and Massachusetts, where approval will bring a deposit of at least 5? on every soft-drink and beer container, and in Maine, where the voters must decide if they want the bottle ban enacted last April by the state legislature...