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...pressure rose again the following day when TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "counterrevolutionary groups" within Solidarity were turning to "open confrontation" with the Polish Communist Party and with factory and office administrators. At the Iskra ball bearing and spark plug factory in Kielce, TASS charged, workers had ousted the management and disarmed security guards. The dispatch, which originated in Warsaw, also said that officials of the pro-party trade unions had been replaced by "persons who openly adhere to antigovernment positions." Both Solidarity and the official Polish press denied the story...
...harshest attack yet on the new unions, and implied a dangerous drift toward lawlessness that needed rectifying. Significantly, the TASS report was broadcast by Radio Moscow, but did not appear in Soviet newspapers, suggesting it was intended for Poland and the West rather than domestic consumption...
...walked off the job in Lodz, and pay disputes interrupted operations at a reported 30 coal mines in the industrial region of Silesia. Commuter lines in Warsaw and Gdansk were briefly shut down when railway workers and the government clashed over how to distribute $6.3 million in pay raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home of 19 Soviet divisions and the front line of Warsaw Pact defenses...
Though Percy refused to divulge full details of his meetings until he briefed Reagan, the moribund SALT II treaty topped the agenda. According to the Soviet news agency TASS, Brezhnev told Percy that the Soviet Union "is in favor of strengthening relations with the United States on a long-term basis," but warned that such progress could only occur if there was no "stagnation" in the two nations' efforts to limit nuclear weapons...
...Ukranian town of Novoselitsa, which Reed visited as a correspondent during World War I, recently opened the John Reed Museum and named a street after the author, the Soviet news agency Tass reported yesterday...