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...guerrillas who refuse to accept a general amnesty. As one ARENA document put it, "Nationalist Republicans believe in God, the country and liberty, in that order." D'Aubuisson would like to reverse the bank nationalizations carried out in March 1980 and replace the state-run peasant cooperatives of the current land reform with individual holdings...
...threat came in response to the government's sudden doubling of cigarette prices Monday and was part of a comprehensive social and economic program passed by the 18-day, two-part congress. The program is aimed at giving workers more say in the operation of state-run enterprises...
...With the state-run supply system on the verge of collapse, most Poles must turn to alternate sources for food and other scarce items. Those with friends or relatives abroad may get some of what they need via parcel post. Others resort to barter: a mechanic might trade two quarts of motor oil to a salesgirl for a pound of coffee; in Silesia, the miners are reportedly trading coal to farmers for meat. For exorbitant prices, or hard Western currency, almost anything can be gotten on the black market. Sample prices: blue jeans, $180; one pint of vodka...
...State investigators caught Brown aides late last year using state-run computers to assemble a private mailing list of potential supporters. Brown was not implicated directly, and the cries of "Computergate" soon faded. Nonetheless, the episode damaged his image. Five years ago, an astonishing 61% of voters agreed with the statement that Brown was "doing more to restore people's faith in political leaders than almost anyone else." Now only 23% agree...
...clock, superimposed on the television screen and accompanied by tick-tock music, swept its way around the dial, as though a corny game show were taking place. Then, precisely at 10 o'clock, as the polls closed throughout the country, Anchorman Haim Yavin carefully read out on the state-run network the projections he had been handed half an hour earlier, which were compiled from a meticulously conducted poll of voters as they left their polling stations. The immediate TV predictions: Labor would get 48 or 49 seats, Likud 47, and the other parties would divide up the remaining...