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...human rights movement in Poland has gained prominence in the last two years in the aftermath of government repression to quell strikes that erupted nation wide in 1976 in response to higher food prices...
Even though the Administration is now optimistic about ratification (and polls show a majority of the public in favor), the two amendments will not quell significant opposition. Republican Moderate Robert Griffin of Michigan, who has taken on the job of managing the opposition, denounced the treaties last week as "pregnant with the seeds of acrimony and strife ... fatally flawed and riddled with ambiguity." Senator John Stennis of Mississippi warned that the transfer would cost more than $1 billion. Reagan joined in with a nationwide TV address in which he claimed that the treaties might result in the loss...
...annual Christmas pageant on the Ellipse. As the President began his welcoming remarks, police struggled to keep the two factions apart. The large white welcome banner was ripped to shreds. At that point, the wind carried the first acrid whiffs of tear gas used by police to quell the outbreak toward the ceremonies in progress on the White House lawn
...Only when the Catholics rose up in protest in 1968 and the present troubles were ignited (and Ulster became a burden, and not an asset) did the British government reassess its position and begin applying political leverage. Its first major move was the introduction of troops in 1969 to quell rioting, particularly of the Protestants, who were gearing up for full-scale violence...
...Bucharest government sent massive police and army reinforcements to the mines to quell the strikers-which apparently led to bloody clashes. When the miners refused to budge, Labor Minister Gheorghe Pana and Politburo Member Hie Verdet were sent from Bucharest to talk the strikers back to work. Pick-wielding miners grabbed the two officials and held them hostage in a pit. At this point, Party Chief Nicolae Ceausescu was summoned from his Black Sea vacation and brought to the scene by helicopter. Surrounded by armed bodyguards, the Rumanian leader warned the miners that unless he can maintain absolute order...