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GDANSK, Poland--Riot squads stormed a strikebound steel mill in southern Poland yesterday and crushed a 10-day-old strike, and thousands of police surrounded a Gdansk shipyard in a tense standoff with defiant strikers...
...huge Nowa Huta steel mill in Krakow, riot police stormed sleeping steelworkers, hurled deafening percussion grenades and rounded up 38 people...
...Riot squads stormed Nowa Huta just one day after Roman Catholic church mediators had persuaded plant directors to negotiate with the strikers...
Thirty to 50 people outside the gates were detained when they tried to stage a sympathy march to the plant, which was ringed with platoons of riot police...
...which the director is a Japanese staging his first work entirely in English? For which the costumes are pieced together from antique kimonos, the set is metal gratings and a chair, and Lear spends a long while stuffed into a laundry cart? Surely this is auteurist direction run riot, the sort of conceptual staging of Shakespeare that makes theatergoers yearn for the days of the director as traffic...