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Clearly, many Poles felt that it was high time to cool the country's labor unrest. There was an almost palpable sense of relief when the Polish supreme court postponed a ruling on the right of Poland's 3.2 million private farmers to form their own union, thus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Straining for Harmony | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

But Link and Co.--looking for U.N. votes and natural resources--visit the volcanic island where, along the way to securing a treaty which trades 1500 average Americans for fertilizer to produce scallions the size of telephone poles, Link's daughter is defiled by a stone statue and the president...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: An Impeachable Offense | 1/9/1981 | See Source »

Wherever he traveled around the country in 1976, campaigning for the nomination against Jerry Ford, Reagan thought about his new retreat. In motel rooms he would step off the bedroom and bath to get an idea of room dimensions, and on the plane he drew floor plan sketches. Often he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Where the Skies Are Not Cloudy... | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Precisely at midnight, Poland's Communist-controlled radio gulped, then sent out over the air waves the combined symbol of the nation's rebirth and peril: midnight Mass. Though most Poles were at that moment in their own parish churches, the broadcast from Cracow's Wawel Cathedral...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Rebirth and Peril | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Meanwhile, the revolutionary fervor that existed in Eastern Europe after World War II has long since evaporated; it has been replaced by cynicism, opportunism and a sullen resentment of authority. With the possible exception of Rumania, other Warsaw Pact nations would be likely to assist the Soviets in an invasion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: East Bloc: Illusions of Unity | 12/29/1980 | See Source »

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