Word: standoffs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Warsaw prevented an embarrassing standoff by reversing a previous refusal to negotiate and dispatching the Minister of Union Affairs, Stanislaw Ciosek, to Rzeszow. Ciosek informed the strikers the government was ready to talk. With that, Walesa and a handful of dissidents left for bargaining sessions in Warsaw. At week's end, after a 13-hour negotiating marathon, both sides announced agreement on the work week and access to the media. The government accepted the 40-hour week in principle but would only allow three free Saturdays a month this year; in addition, Solidarity would be granted a one-hour...
...long time it was impossible to negotiate at all. The Iranians had what they wanted. They did not seek the moral approval of the world; they wanted only to see the U.S., the Shah's great friend, tied to the ground like Gulliver. The result was a standoff between rage and outrage, and both persist, the U.S. outrage now informed by tales of harassment of the hostages and by the uniformity of their bitterness...
...police were sent to break up sit-ins in Nowy Sacz and Ustrzyki Dolne. Though authorities stopped short of ousting the 400 workers and farmers occupying the old official union offices in Rzeszow, they refused to enter into any negotiations with the protesters that might resolve the tense local standoff...
...Rzeszow chapter of Solidarity appears to have the authorities there stymied. On the one hand, they have been unable to coax the occupiers out. On the other, they are equally unwilling to grant their main demand: negotiations toward legitimizing the farmers' union. The result is a standoff. Last week TIME Correspondent Richard Hornik visited the sit-in at Rzeszow. His report...
Though U.S. diplomats were concerned that ultimately the Soviets just might arrest an American to set up a possible trade, or even that Afghan troops might storm the embassy, the matter seemed, so far, a standoff. It was obviously impossible to spirit the soldier out to the West. On the other hand, particularly in the midst of an election campaign, the Carter Administration was in no position to hand him back. One way out of the impasse seemed to be up to the Soviets: if they were to prove eager to clear the air for this week's meeting...