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Meanwhile, in Gdansk, Solidarity's national commission held an emergency session on how to deal with the government. For three days, union leaders angrily debated the question of just how far they could push the beleaguered officials under the threat of possible Soviet intervention. Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa later...
Some of the details are agonizingly familiar: trees and utility poles turned into charred matchsticks by the intense heat (temperatures reached millions of degrees at the centers of the explosions); earthquake-resistant buildings crumpled by the shock waves; human flesh burned 2½ miles from the targets. Less well known...
The latest unrest was sparked by the government's abrupt announcement two weeks ago that food prices would soon triple or even quadruple- and the simultaneous word that meat rations would be cut by 20%, allotting each person only 6.6 lbs. per month (average U.S. consumption: 12.5 lbs.). That...
THE CALCUATED GAME of men like Reagan is especially repelling when set against their calculated support for the people of Poland (invariably described as "brave"). In the past week, Solidarity has not only shut down the nation's airports for short stretches, it has also staged work stoppages in virtually...
If the Polish example provides irony, it also provides instruction, in this case for American labor. The basics of the movement that has begun to free Poland are not too hard to understand, especially for anyone who has read of the International Workers of the World (the IWW, the Wobblies...