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...raid on striking firemen sends tempers rising...
...raid was the government's biggest show of force against strikers since Poland's free trade-union movement Solidarity was formed 15 months ago. It was also a sign that the Polish Politburo, while as cautious as ever in handling the student rebellion and the wave of wildcat strikes that has swept the country in the past two months, could be pushed only so far. The cadets received such firm treatment because firemen in Poland are subject to military discipline and, like police forces, are under the authority of the Ministry of Internal Affairs...
...Cabinet meeting earlier endorsed the unconditional freeing of 39 of the 44 mercenaries, who were warned to keep a low profile and not to discuss the coup attempt. The other five, including the raid's leader, Colonel Michael ("Mad Mike") Hoare, 62, a veteran mercenary who achieved renown of a sort in the Congo during the '60s, got off lightly. Instead of being charged with hijacking, which could have brought a mandatory sentence of five to 30 years, the five were accused of kidnaping, a lesser crime with no mandatory penalty. Moreover, the charge may not stick, since...
UMBC officials had banned the movie, "Debbie Does Dallas," last month because they feared that county police would raid the showing, confiscate the film and arrest students present, the student paper The Diamondback reported...
...wanted to attend the summit. Libya's Muammar Gaddafi made it known that he would boycott the session. So did Algeria's Bendjedid Chadli, Marxist South Yemen's Ali Nasser Mohammed and Iraq's Saddam Hussein, who was still smarting from Israel's surprise raid last June on the nuclear reactor in Baghdad. In all, eight top-level Arab leaders failed to go to Fez, including Syria's President Hafez Assad, who sent in his place Foreign Minister Abdel Halim Khaddam...