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...faced a crucial showdown with union radicals as the ten-day Gdansk session opened on Saturday. Solidarity Secretary Andrzej Celinski hailed the government measure as a "victory for the union." When a number of congress delegates grumbled during opening sessions that the legislation did not, go far enough, Solidarity spokesmen argued yet again that some compromise was necessary. Said one State Department analyst: "Basically, the government has said that if the moderates come through, we'll try it. If they don't, something close to all hell will break loose...
...team did not leave its Albany hotel until Sunday. Spokesmen for the team and for the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, which operates New York area airports, refused to say when the players would leave; but Port Authority police said they were told the team would be leaving from New York...
...Police spokesmen estimated that only 1000 demonstrators remained in the heavy rains one-half hour after game-time, and about 400 waited for the one and one-half hour match...
Some officials believe that Columbia may be juggling the University project with several other jobs, and may therefore not be giving a full effort to completing it on time. Columbia workers at the site refuse to comment and efforts to reach spokesmen at the firm's main office have been unavailing...
...group of ten federation members from various cities assembled in Peking last April to discuss strategy, they were nabbed by police. Among the seized was Xu Wenli, 36, a railway electrician who had edited the April 5th Forum and was one of the democracy movement's most articulate spokesmen. Neither Xu nor any of the others has been seen or heard from. In the weeks that followed that roundup, provincial police swept down on various other editors outside Peking, putting an estimated 50 of them into custody. The government has continued to arrest other activists...