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Poles also prayed yesterday for the dying primate of their Roman Catholic Church, Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski, who once was the pope's mentor and who for 33 years was the embattled church's leader.
But real economic recovery will require stringent belt-tightening measures, something Poland's long-suffering population may be reluctant to accept. The government last week added cereals and flour to its list of strictly rationed commodities, which already include meat and sugar. Meanwhile, the queues of hapless shoppers grow...
Some potential relief came two weeks ago, when commercial bank representatives meeting in London recommended that Warsaw be allowed to delay payment on $1.05 billion due before July 1. But that limited rollover agreement, as one Western banker put it, was like "applying a Band-Aid to a patient in...
So far, no traffic accidents have been attributed to the missing poles. But who knows what may happen if the thefts continue. Dade County, which encompasses Miami and many of its suburbs, has only four workers to maintain-and replace-8,000 poles.
Those efforts do not seem to have been very successful so far. For the past month, TIME has learned, the Soviets have been urging Warsaw to impose martial law. But the Poles have refused, arguing that such a move would almost certainly provoke a general strike. That, they fear, would...