Word: premieres
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...DECISION Saturday of Poland premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski to impose martial law and clamp down on the free trade union Solidarity did not come as a shock. For the last 15 months, the West has heard that Poland teeters on a narrow precipice, despite having managed to resolve crisis after crisis through touch-and-go negotiations. This weekend, the Polish Communist Party finally saw its opportunity--in Jaruzelski's words--to prevent Poland from falling into "the abyss...
...that the union's basic eagerness to avoid confrontation had changed. Still, the assault provoked genuine anger among Solidarity supporters. It also made it more difficult for Solidarity to support the proposal for a "front of national agreement" that had been put forward a month ago by the Premier and party chief, General Wojciech Jaruzelski. The plan, which had been endorsed in part by Walesa and the Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, would have established a permanent legal forum for negotiations between Poland's contending forces...
...main event of the congress was an address by Premier Zhao Ziyang on China's future. Zhao's report, so lengthy that it took two days to deliver, revealed that during the next five years China will engage in a major effort to streamline what he called the country's "bloated, overlapping, administrative structure." The monumentally inefficient bureaucracy, which can trace its beginnings to Confucius' time, has survived wars, political upheaval and even the Cultural Revolution. Today, it is estimated that China has as many as 20 million civil servants...
...Deputy premier Mieczyslww Jaglielski informs strikers at the Lenin shipyards in Gdansk he will negotiate their 21 demands, which include freedom of speech, independent trade unions and access to the media by the Roman Catholic church...
...Premier Jaruzelski tells the Communist party central committee that strikes and anarchy must be halted, or it will lead to a state of emergency. The party leaders call for "extraordinary measures" to end the nation's labor turmoil...