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...small spark in Poland's eight-month confrontation between the government and the reform-minded unionists of Solidarity could touch off a conflagration. Last week in Bydgoszcz (pop. 300,000), 140 miles northwest of Warsaw, the flash was almost struck. For three days, farmers demanding their own union, Rural Solidarity, had occupied a government building. Somehow, the tensions of the peasant sit-in swirled across town to another meeting at the Bydgoszcz provincial council building, where local Solidarity members and Rural Solidarity activists sought to discuss the situation with the Provisional People's Council...
Just before the movie begins aboard long-haul flights on American, Braniff and Northwest, a ten-minute, highly professional film flashes on the screen. Titled World on Parade, it appears at first glance to be a 1940s-style newsreel. Passengers listening through their earphones hear a solemn-voiced narrator describe dramatic scenes of F-14 fighters landing on a Navy aircraft carrier. But then comes the soft sell: those are Grumman planes. Other World on Parade segments have included a mini-tour of a Chrysler factory where robots help assemble K-cars and a message for Krugerrands showing how gold...
...same time, however, the name of Patrick Rogers, 17, was added to the list of black Atlanta children murdered since July 1979, bringing the number to 19 (two other children remain missing). Rogers' body was found last December in Cobb County's Chattahoochee River, northwest of the city. Authorities have now decided that Rogers had key traits in common with other victims. He came from a poor, broken home and spent much of his time hustling for odd jobs. Rogers enjoyed partying and had won local talent shows for blues singing. His favorite hobby was karate. Said...
Atlanta's 35-member police task force, which is being aided by the FBI, had two new cases last week. Curtis Walker, 13, was reported missing on Feb. 19, when he failed to return home from a job at a snack bar in northwest Atlanta. The task force is also hunting for Darron Glass, 10, who was last seen in September. The death of Aaron Wyche, 10, whose body was found last June in De Kalb County beneath a railroad trestle, was originally classified an accident; investigators have now determined that his death was due to asphyxiation...
...invade Poland, the first soldiers into action would probably come from the Soviet units already stationed inside the country as part of the Warsaw Pact force facing NATO across Central Europe. The Soviet troops, which are estimated to number 40,000, are concentrated in two locations, in the northwest near the rural hamlet of Borne and in the southwest at Legnica, a city of 75,000, where their main headquarters is situated. Each base accommodates a tank division of about 10,000 troops, 350 T-64 and T-72 tanks and more than 2,000 other vehicles. These armored combat...