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This is the tenth year that the racing pigs have made the Midwest fair circuit, drawing more than 3 million fans so far in eight states ranging from Ohio to Iowa. Holding, formerly advertising director at Heinold, was half jesting in 1976 when he first mentioned to then President Harold Heinold the idea of staging pig races as a way to promote the company's name. "He looked at me and said, 'Work it out for next year.' Just like that." Holding read up on how Pavlov had trained his dogs and then set up a makeshift starting gate...
Only Poland could harbor the contrasting scenes that took place within miles of each other last week. In the cavernous Congress Hall of Warsaw's Palace of Culture, 1,776 delegates attending Poland's Tenth Communist Party Congress sang the Communist International. Then, as Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev settled into his chair, Polish Leader Wojciech Jaruzelski launched into a 4 1/2-hour report declaring that after the "tough ordeal" of the past five years, Poland's Communists are successfully pursuing the "line of socialist renewal...
...Polish Government Spokesman Jerzy Urban, failed to do everything in its power to prevent the imposition. Solidarity's dwindling band of sympathizers warily concluded last week that the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski was hell-bent on a new campaign to intimidate and demoralize the opposition before the Tenth Polish Communist Party Congress opens in Warsaw at the end of the month...
...said to have worked. In Lusaka, the exiled A.N.C. leader Oliver Tambo, who has been running the organization ever since his friend Mandela went to prison in the early 1960s, called on South African blacks to give their full support to a national strike on June 16, the tenth anniversary of the uprising in Soweto. Declared Tambo: "Let every university and school be emptied of its youth. Let every mine, factory, farm and white home be without labor. Let every shop close its doors." With emotions running so high on both sides, and with both camps showing signs of fracturing...
...birthday" in New York City when she was reunited after nearly a decade with Anatoli Shcharansky, who is visiting the U.S. to thank Americans for their help in winning his release from the U.S.S.R. Both were founding members of Moscow's Helsinki human rights group, which had its tenth anniversary last week. They embraced, laughed and began talking animatedly in Russian. The next day, Shcharansky met with members of Congress and spent 40 minutes at the White House with President Reagan. Sidestepping criticism that Bonner had not been similarly invited, Shcharansky said, "If Andrei Sakharov is released, President Reagan will...