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...because coal production is running more than 5% behind projections. Poor weather and absurdly low government price ceilings-a major disincentive to farmers-have contributed to a 12% decline in agricultural output. "Queues existed before, but now we have no food at all," complained a worker at the Ursus tractor factory outside Warsaw last week. Food exports, which earned $1.4 billion last year, have dwindled to a trickle...
...makings of a rerun of last summer's strike drama. Threatening a citywide general strike, workers in Warsaw put up posters and donned red-and-white armbands. Many newsstands stopped selling government newspapers and displayed small Polish flags, a symbol of union protest. At the Ursus tractor factory, flash point of the 1976 food riots, more than 600 assembled workers cheered as union organizers from other Warsaw plants pledged to shut down their enterprises. The battle cry was contained in a poem read by one union leader: "It's better to die on your feet than to live...
...will rebel against human control, there is an equally romantic tradition that machines are inherently benign, symbols of progress and perfectability. Isaac Asimov epitomized that view in a famous story titled Robbie, in which a much mistrusted robot baby sitter of that name rescues its ward from a speeding tractor. Asimov then went on to formulate, in Runaround (1942), what he decreed to be, in the world of science fiction at least, the Three Laws of Robotics: "1) A robot may not injure a human being, 2) A robot must obey the orders given it by a human being except...
...unusual convoy. Three armored tractor-trailers were bound from the Denver Mint to the Bank of America in San Francisco last week with a $2.6 million cargo. When they stopped for the night in Oakland, Calif., at the Edgewater-West Adult Motor Inn, known for its X-rated movies, three bandits broke into one of the trucks. The driver on guard saw them only in time to fire his revolver at a Lincoln Continental speeding away...
...satellite, no matter how balky. But Moscow might have to move, if only to sti fle rumblings of discontent within its own borders. Estonian emigres in Stockholm report that there have been nationalist demonstrations at schools in the Estonian capital of Tallinn, as well as a strike at a tractor factory in the city of Tartu. Students in Tartu held protest rallies, demanding an end to the 40-year-old So viet occupation of their country. Walesa is characteristically defiant about the possibility of Soviet intervention. "Tanks can guard us," he says, "but they cannot make us work...