Word: trade-union
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Moscow's saber rattling had a clear purpose: to intimidate Solidarity, the independent trade-union movement that has become increasingly bold in its demands for political liberalization. But what may have been a better guide to Soviet intentions was nearly drowned out in the alarmist din. With the Polish economy in a tailspin, the Soviets last week gave their suffering satellite $1.1 billion in hard-currency credits and $200 million in commodities. Most analysts believe Soviet military intervention is a distant last resort, to be used only in case of serious disturbances or a total breakdown of party control...
Still, beneath the well-orchestrated harmony and smooth avoidance of controversial votes, pressures were mounting on Thatcher to soften her rigid monetarism as Britain slips deeper into recession. After 17 months in office, the Thatcher government's economic policies were being sharply attacked, not just by trade-union leaders but by industrial managers as well...
...want to change the socialist ownership of the means of production, but we do want to be the real masters of the factories. We were promised that many times before. We have now decided to demand it by strikes." Jagielski responded with a different concession: a new trade-union law recognizing the right to strike-"as one form of realizing workers' demands when all other possibilities fail." With that, Polish workers had won a legal right unprecedented in any Communist country...
...Soviet model, leaves 75% of the country's farms in private hands. Last week, under pressure from a wave of peaceful but illegal strikes in factories across the country, Party Leader Edward Gierek seemed to be heading toward another ideological compromise: de facto recognition of an amorphous independent trade-union movement...
...City (formerly Saigon). Motorcycles and motor scooters still crowd the streets, and there are such remaining signs of "bourgeois decadence" as beauty parlors and blue jeans. But the U.S. embassy building now houses Viet Nam's state petroleum agency; the enormous former U.S. AID compound is headquarters for Saigonese trade-union organizations. The notoriously sinful La Vie en Rose bar has been subdivided into small meeting halls. Night life in general has been thoroughly quelled by the rectitudinous Communists...