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...mandate for his reformist leadership before the first anniversary of the riots. As Soviet Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev and other East bloc party leaders looked on in the ornate Palace of Culture and Science, whose facade was decorated with a seven-story portrait of Lenin, Gierek made a strong plea to Poles for cooperation. "Our supreme aim," he declared, "is the systematic improvement of living standards"-including at least one free Saturday per month for all vvorkers. He called too for a greater sense of unity and purpose. "Poland today needs every brain, every pair of hands...
...appear conciliatory by recalling the hardhat marches of 18 months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that I appreciate that." But after ending his remarks with a plea for labor support, Nixon received little applause. Then, to the audience's delight, Meany quipped: "We will now proceed with Act II." Nixon, for his part, cancelled plans to spend the week end at his Key Biscayne home, and returned to Washington...
...Cutters asked the Supreme Court to review a lower court's decision that the freeze was indeed constitutional and that the butchers therefore could not collect retroactively a raise of 250 an hour that had been due from meat packers on Sept. 6. The union's legal plea could have profound consequences for Phase...
...Vatican Council II was the bitter pill that caused conservative alienation, it was Pope Paul's no-Pill Humanae Vitae that most embittered liberals. The tragedy of that encyclical was that it could have been a proud plea for the dignity of human life-as many of the overlooked paragraphs remain-at a time when human engineering was raising serious moral questions. Instead, in forbidding artificial birth control, it discouraged not only fervent Catholics who believed in change but those borderline Catholics for whom change might have been a hopeful sign...
...Plea Bargaining. Meanwhile, the new standards had been modified to give authorities more time. But Dade County still had more than 5,000 cases to dispose of and the time limit now has run out for all those who were awaiting trial when the new rules went into effect. Right up to the deadline, prosecutors and judges were engaging in a frantic binge of plea bargaining-allowing defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges to avoid the time and expense of trials. There simply was no way to try everyone. Overcrowded Florida court calendars may now be a problem...