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What caused the riots? What could be done to prevent a recurrence? What did it all say about the kind of multiracial society that Britain has become after absorbing 1.9 million nonwhite immigrants since the 1950s? A similar social explosion occurred a year ago in the seaport city of Bristol, where a police drug raid on a cafe provoked both blacks and whites to take to the streets. Twenty-one policemen and nine civilians were injured in clashes, but property damage was far less extensive than in Brixton. To many analysts, unemployment and poor housing were the common denominators...
...Baltic seaport of Gdansk, sirens wailed to signal the start of a four-hour "warning strike" that interrupted public transport and shut down more than 800 plants. In Warsaw, red-and-white Polish flags fluttered defiantly over idle buses and streetcars as drivers joined workers from some 60 local factories and offices in a related half-day stoppage. On the outskirts of Bydgoszcz, 140 miles northwest of the capital, police turned back columns of angry tractor drivers who were seeking to stage a demonstration in the middle of the town. The snowballing protest climaxed on Saturday, when millions of workers...
...background of terror . . . which does not spare the lives of innocent men." The meeting concluded with an exchange of gifts. Walesa gave the Pope a ship model made by the Gdansk shipworkers and a replica of the recently constructed monument to the slain workers of the 1970 Baltic seaport MSA riots. The Pope presented Walesa and his wife with rosaries and a signed photograph of himself...
...years later, George Harrison had joined the Quarrymen, and the band was actually earning some money They had their own fans, and a growing reputation that took them to club dates in the gritty seaport of Hamburg, West Germany, where they eventually changed their name to the Beatles and got a double dose of the seamier side of rock life Lennon, who like the rest of the boys favored black leather jackets, pegged pants and stomper boots, was sending long
...power struggle between Poland's newly independent labor movement and the Warsaw regime of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has become an international suspense serial, one showdown giving way to the next, each resolved in the nick of time. From a shipyard in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, the drama has radiated across Poland and the East bloc. Now it is affecting Western Europe and the U.S. as well...