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...same time, the party also seemed intent on trying to divide the workers from their intellectual backers. The official press last week stepped up its campaign against "antisocialist elements" and specifically denounced KOR, the dissident group that has been advising the strikers. Explained KOR's leader, Sociologist Jacek Kuron: "They want to rid the [independent labor] movement of activists so that they can take over and do what they did with the official trade unions...
...there any possible solution to this repressive mire, other than escaping it? Could the situation go on forever? According to one Argentine sociologist who lives in New York City, "Repression's been a tradition in Argentina since colonial times. We had dictatorships 25 years before Peron. People have known nothing else--they've been weaned on lack of liberty and learned to accept...
...Sociologist Dane Archer cites Dr. Bell's deductive skill as an example of a subtle ability totally different from the verbal and mathematical capacities measured by standard IQ tests. He calls it social intelligence, or the knack of picking up nonverbal signals. In his book How to Expand Your Social Intelligence Quotient (M. Evans; $9.95), Archer writes that while a high S.I. helped make Bell a great doctor, today's medical schools, psychiatric institutes and other professional training centers ignore it when picking their students. Says he: "Verbal intelligence has a dismal record for predicting success...
Many KOR leaders, like Sociologist Jacek Kuron, are former Marxist intellectuals who oppose the present police state and call instead for a more democratic, decentralized brand of socialism. An advocate of organized resistance rather than violence, Kuron nonetheless warned in the West German newspaper Die Welt last week: "The way things are going now, sooner or later there will be an explosion, the consequences of which will be a national tragedy...
...experience of these tripartite groups has been mixed to date. Labor leaders find the concept appealing, although they would like such commissions to be policymaking rather than just advisory. Sociologist Amitai Etzioni, who coined the term reindustrialization and has done perhaps the most work on the subject, believes that three or four of these groups might be useful; but he is skeptical about their widespread use. Some businessmen, on the other hand, believe that tripartite committees offer the illusion of progress, but actually result in more bureaucracy and few changes...