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Solidarity leaders often react vociferously to government shows of firmness, yet there was little evidence last week 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...
...Solidarity member who left Poland last spring to teach at Harvard retained hope that the union could effectively counter the government thrust without bloodshed. "I can only hope that the people will react peacefully to this...but in a decisive way," Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said...
...real problem is simply that Nichols seems confused about his own goals. He wants to examine the many major issues facing the church, and how it must react, but he seems reluctant to provide the sort of tough devil's advocacy that such an investigation demands. The result is a book of pulled punches. The book's title comes from Stalin's famous reply, when told of the pope's likely opposition to a Soviet move: "How many divisions has the pope?" With a bit of clever wordplay, Nichols seems intent on making it mean not only the pope...
...modernize the company's production facilities. Yet the problems persist. Workers, already far less productive than their foreign competitors, are prone to going out on strike at the drop of a wrench. BL's management has often been slow to prune outmoded, unprofitable car lines or to react to changes in the auto market. The company, for example, stopped exporting Land Rovers to the U.S. in 1976, mainly because of a shortage of capacity, and thus missed a boom in sales of off-the-road vehicles like the Jeep Cherokee and Ford Bronco. As a result of labor...
...tastes and smells accelerate the heart rates of adolescents. A sweet taste speeds the heart by 2% or 3%, bitter and sour tastes race the pulse 17% to 20% faster. Steiner, in long-term test studies of infants, discovered that first reactions to smells are inborn, not acquired. Newborns react positively to pleasant odors and screw up their faces in response to unpleasant ones, even before they have tasted any food...