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...liners have been circulating a six-page platform that might have been written by Joseph Stalin himself. The document blasts the "revisionist" reform policies adopted after August 1980, when the Solidarity labor movement was launched, and calls socialist. a drastic purge of party moderates. While it cautions against a prompt easing of martial law restrictions or the release of some 4,000 political prisoners, the pamphlet criticizes the military regime for usurping the party's leadership role...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Prisoner of Events | 3/8/1982 | See Source »

...time for the March 7 christening ceremony. He also gave the priest a brief note saying that all previous appeals attributed to him had been "provocatively fabricated." Wrote Walesa: "My concept of struggle is different, and I will explain it after coming out." Despite his dreams of a prompt release, that explanation may be long in coming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland: Getting Tough | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Academic experts warn that one of the first consequences of such action would be to reduce the little leverage that the West has on Warsaw and Moscow. Says Edward Hewett of the Brookings Institution: "A default would prompt the loss of what influence we have." The move would also hurt the reputation of Western bankers. Adds a European banking authority: "A Western declaration of default would make the Soviets chuckle. The Russians would be able to discredit the West, particularly in the Third World, where such action would be regarded as callous capitalism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Itching to Pull the Plug on Poland | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Administrators and members of the University's governing Corporation respond that they intend to alleviate the Fogg's severe space shortage--but several have displayed an oddly cavalier attitude toward the fears that without prompt action the museum's prestige, ability to attract donations and teaching quality will begin to deteriorate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Salvaging A museum | 2/9/1982 | See Source »

...matrimonial law. Says she: "It is unfair to limit the compensation to just what the wife has spent without considering the enhancement of the husband's earning power." The California court took that extra step, and if the ruling withstands appeal, that state's precedent should prompt others to follow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Split Decisions | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

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