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...nation labors under a $27 billion foreign debt that is still rising, national income is expected to fall by 15% this year. The statistics for the first half of 1981 are grim: coal output fell by 22%; copper, 11%; refined oil, 19%; animal feed, 14%; cattle herds, 7%; swine herds, 13%; exports to the West, 21.5%. Says John Hardt, an economist for the Congressional Research Service: "The Polish economy is 'growing' negatively at a rate that is unprecedented in peacetime. It's a wartime economy...
...Charles and his Shy Di. The true royal tandem this summer is a prince-frog named Kermit and his porcine treasure, Miss Piggy. In their sequel to The Muppet Movie, Jim Henson's Dynel delights are out to retrieve the fabulous Baseball Diamond and bring to justice the swine-oops, dastard-who stole it. Caper never lives up to Kermit's early promise: "Boy, I wish I were you people seeing this picture for the first time." Fozzie Bear, Animal, Gonzo and the rest are more at home subverting the rigid formulas of TV. But as the Divine...
...intent on hogging the spotlight. The gift was nothing to snoot at - as a gentleman farmer back home, Runcie oversees 60 prize Berkshires of his own. The latest addition to the Archbishop's porcine parish listened beatifically as Runcie gushed, "I love my pigs." She perked a wary swine's ear, however, when the Archbishop added, "but I don't mind eating them...
Walesa did his best to cool tempers during his visit to Bydgoszcz. "Not all the authorities are swine," the Solidarity leader said. Then he warned them that "you must realize that a general strike would be the end of our struggle. One side has an army and we have none...
There a photographer cap tured Mr. B. with the 8-ft. rara avis: certainly ballet's oddest couple since Nureyev teamed with Miss Piggy in Swine Lake...