Word: rural
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relief when the Polish supreme court postponed a ruling on the right of Poland's 3.2 million private farmers to form their own union, thus defusing a new crisis. The farm leaders were jubilant over the court's apparent readiness to study ways of legalizing a Rural Solidarity movement patterned on Walesa's Solidarity. Only last September the Warsaw district court had ruled that Poland's private farmers were not entitled to a union, on the ground that they are self-employed. Angered by that earlier decision, farmers had threatened to withhold their produce from government...
Jerry Banks, 29, an inmate on death row in a Georgia prison, received an astonishing visit from his lawyers two weeks ago. Banks, a black, had been convicted twice in rural Henry County of murdering two whites in 1974. Now after six years in prison he was preparing for another trial, since the second verdict, like the first, had been tossed out by the state supreme court. But instead of discussing his defense, his lawyers asked what he would like for Christmas. "To go home," replied Banks. Said the lawyers: "Then let's go." They announced that the prosecution...
...fledgling union, known as Rural Solidarity, claims to represent 500,000 of the 3.2 million private farmers. Long bitter about government policies that favored less efficient collectives, the farmers are demanding equitable distribution of machinery and supplies to private owners, as well as increased government aid. They also want religious instruction in schools, preservation of traditional rural culture, and social benefits such as paid vacations, health insurance and pensions equal to those of industrial workers...
DIED. Harland Sanders, 90, the goateed "colonel" who founded the Kentucky Fried Chicken fast-food chain, which now has 6,000 outlets in 48 countries; of pneumonia; in Louisville. Sanders ran a popular restaurant in rural Corbin, Ky., for 27 years before setting out in 1956 in his trademark white suits and black string ties to sell franchised eateries serving chicken parts laced with a secret blend of herbs and spices and pressure-cooked for 12 min. In 1964 he sold the business for $2 million to Nashville Businessmen Jack Massey and John Y. Brown Jr., now Kentucky...
...Cunning Little Vixen. In addition, he has been making appearances in bookstores to sign copies of a coffee-table retrospective, The Art of Maurice Sendak, by Selma G. Lanes. In the midst of this hectic schedule he paused for breath in his bachelor retreat in rural Connecticut and reminisced with New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler...