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...Thursday's strike deadline, the authorities caved in to the union's chief demand. They released Jan Narozniak, a union volunteer, and Piotr Sapelo, a government employee, both of whom had been arrested on charges of stealing a secret state plan for cracking down on dissidents. The 13-page document was uncovered when police raided the Warsaw branch of Solidarity, the national federation of Poland's new independent unions and their estimated 10 million members...
...problems for Brother Jimmy growing out of Billy's Libyan connection, meanwhile, continue to be embarrassing. Emerging from his Sapelo Island vacation hideaway last week, President Carter was repeatedly questioned by reporters. "I think it was a regrettable thing that happened," the President said. "I just hope he doesn't get hurt too badly...
...next day, Carter flew to Alaska, where he rose at 4 a.m. Alaska time to don his waders and go by helicopter to a remote area north of Anchorage to fish for trout and grayling. The catch: 24 grayling. Then it was off to Sapelo Island, Ga., where he planned to watch the nomination of the man who hopes to move into the White House next January...
...just returned from a moderately upbeat trip to Europe, Carter took off on another 15-day marathon that would wing him twice across the U.S., then to Japan, then to a stopover in Alaska on the way back and finally to a few days of rest at Sapelo Island off the coast of Georgia, where he would watch the Republican Convention...
...Georgia had renewed his tan in Georgia's sun. His ten-day vacation on isolated Sapelo Island had been so relaxing that he wants to make it a regular refreshment stand. His jogs along the Atlantic had tightened a stomach already impressively taut for a man of 54. He had even cultivated a new hair style by shifting his part from right to left. And, as Jimmy Carter returned to the White House last week, he was in an upbeat mood, telling intimates that the nation's political climate was finally turning in his favor. Said...