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...system overachieves in one notable undertaking: paperwork. Soviet Economist Alexei Rumyantsev, writing in the official trade-union newspaper Trud, estimated in 1983 that Soviet bureaucrats generated 800 billion documents a year. In addition, Rumyantsev noted that factories and offices were constantly being disrupted by inspections: he told of a machine-tool factory that had been visited 145 times in a single year...
...interview, reprinted from the Hungarian trade-union newspaper Nepszava, Deputy Foreign Minister Istvan Roska noted that there were some differences between Warsaw Pact members over the terms that should be written into the 30-year-old treaty's extension. Roska also observed that pact members are "independent and sovereign countries that without exception respect the principle of nonintervention in (one another's) internal affairs." That comment clearly referred to the so-called Brezhnev Doctrine, formulated after the 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia, under which Moscow reserves the right to intervene in Eastern Europe wherever socialism is threatened...
Piotrowski and three other members of the Polish secret police--two lieutenants and a colonel, all now reduced to privates--are on trial for last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a priest who was an unyielding supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. As Piotrowski took the witness stand last week in Room 40 of the courthouse in the city of Torun, many expected the ex-captain to confirm the prosecution's original claim that the slaying was carried out with the knowledge and support of high-ranking members of the Internal Affairs Ministry, which...
...twitch uncontrollably. Chmielewski and three other members of the security forces went on trial two weeks ago in the city of Toruan, 100 miles northwest of Warsaw. They have been charged in last October's abduction and murder of Father Jerzy Popieluszko, a militant supporter of the banned Solidarity trade-union movement. It was Chmielewski's turn to testify last week, and the thought that his life might be hanging in the balance seemed to weigh heavily upon him. His words came out in such a stuttered staccato that one of the five presiding judges in the tiny courtroom grew...
...have been trying to give the opposition a fresh sense of purpose last week. Before the demonstration he circulated copies of a speech that he planned but was unable to deliver at the monument. "Solidarity is alive!" he wrote. "What we need now is new open action for trade-union pluralism on a national scale. I call upon all union activists to take action...