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What they did was defuse a series of strikes in Lodz that threatened to shatter the country's fragile month-old labor truce. The day of the Walesa-Jaruzelski meeting, Lodz factory sirens had blared at 10 a.m. to announce the start of a one-hour work stoppage affecting some 250,000 workers. That warning action was to have been followed by a series of province-wide sympathy strikes and sit-ins. But Walesa and Jaruzelski worked out a last-minute agreement that satisfied the Lodz workers' key demand: reinstatement of five sacked employees of an Interior Ministry...
This time the walkouts were a challenge not only to Poland's Communist government, but to Solidarity, the independent labor union forged during last summer's unrest. The wildcat protests threatened to destroy Solidarity's hard-won unity and shatter the delicate detente between the union and the state. "We must stop all the strikes so that the government can say that Solidarity has the situation under control," warned Union Leader Lech Walesa. "We must concentrate on basic issues. There is a fire in the country...
...needs more bands that kick down our doors and shatter our complacency. Give us the unrestrained Sex Pistols doing "Johnny B. Goode," forgetting the lyrics. Or Dylan or Springsteen, moving toward some poetic vision, trying to find a way to reaffirm life in the face of death. Leave the dildo to Steely Dan, to those who can't enjoy real...
...well as his radical supporters within ZANU. As it is, many of those party militants regularly attack Mugabe for his moderate policies. An acquittal, on the other hand, would tend to ingratiate Mugabe with ZANU's radical wing and with the more militant guerrilla elements. But it could shatter the whites' new-found confidence in Mugabe's government...
Belmont and the Concourse are just two communities beyond the wasteland of Charlotte Street. But they shatter a common misperception of the South Bronx as a community without hope. The South Bronx is more than just, as Ronald Reagan describes it, "A bombed out London after the war." There's life in the South Bronx, but it lies beyond Charlotte Street...