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...they created. St. Paul's, a block from Quincy House, had 1200 students in Sullivan's schooldays, and there were other Catholic schools in every parish of the city. And you don't have nearly as many three-deckers crammed with immigrants. "There were great numbers of Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, and, naturally, Irish," Sullivan says. "There were just loads and loads of Irish," he adds...
...Polish unionists, Catholic hunger strikers, baseball players, air traffic controllers, and postal workers have at least this much in common: without the right to strike, they have few ways to control their own destiny. Any attempt to wrest away that influence should be greeted by a concerted response. And the next time we are inconvenienced or deprived by a strike, we should remember that such actions speak for all those who are having the life squeezed out of them...
Spirits quickened in Poland once again last week as the country was swept anew by the euphoria and the unease that have characterized so much of the past year. The independent labor federation Solidarity celebrated the first anniversary of its recognition by the Polish government and proceeded to hold its first national congress. The Central Committee of the Polish Communist Party met to denounce Solidarity and some of its latest efforts for reform. And lest the aggressive unionists forget the facts of Polish geography, the Soviet Union staged military maneuvers off Poland's northeastern borders-a reminder to Solidarity...
Each side blames the other for the parlous state of the Polish economy. The party leadership criticizes the union, claiming that strikes and obstruction have cut productivity during the past year. The union blames the government and the party for a decade of mismanagement under Edward Gierek, who was ousted last year after the rise of Solidarity. Poland has a skilled labor force, ample farm land and considerable mineral wealth, but Gierek's grandiose heavy-industry schemes have left the country virtually bankrupt and $27 billion in debt to the West. And Solidarity now goes further: it has zeroed...
DIED. Theodore Roszak, 74, Polish-born sculptor who was best known for the much maligned, and admired, 37-ft. aluminum eagle he created for the façade of the U.S. embassy in London in 1960; of a heart attack; in New York City...