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...have only a one-vote majority in the 51-member house of representatives. In a conciliatory move, Romero has offered to submit his cabinet for confirmation to the P.D.P.-controlled senate, though he is not required to do so. He has also appealed to leaders of all parties for restraint...
Similar calls for restraint were heard at commemorative ceremonies last week in Gdynia and Szczecin, the other flash points of the 1970 revolts. The observances themselves could have been construed as a challenge to Moscow, but the Kremlin was apparently prepared to swallow them, for the sake of helping the Polish Communist Party reassert its authority. After weeks of roller-coaster crisis, leaders of the party and Solidarity, the foundation of Poland's independent unions, appear to have reached at least a temporary meeting of minds. One White House aide, delighted that the threat of an immediate Soviet invasion...
Nancy H. Teeters, who has opposed the credit tightening, said that excessive monetary restraint will result in a business decline. "It's very simple," Mrs. Teeters said. "Rates are too high...
...production and send oil prices $50 per bbl. Oil Minister Yamani is demanding that world energy companies carrying heavy stocks start them down faster and that West nations stop squirreling more oil away strategic reserves. Indeed, the Saudis prod Western countries to remind them that OPEC price restraint or petroleum production could end at any time...
Solidarity Leader Walesa seems torn between his impulse toward restraint and his desire to show that the unions cannot be cowed. In an interview with TIME he was alternately combative and cautious. "The authorities have been trying to provoke strikes, and these provocations are unacceptable," he said at one juncture. "If the government does not stop, we will really have a strike-a very serious one." A moment later, he was appeasing: "We do not want to strike, but our solutions will be adapted to circumstances...