Word: truce
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What they did was defuse a series of strikes in Lodz that threatened to shatter the country's fragile month-old labor truce. The day of the Walesa-Jaruzelski meeting, Lodz factory sirens had blared at 10 a.m. to announce the start of a one-hour work stoppage affecting some 250,000 workers. That warning action was to have been followed by a series of province-wide sympathy strikes and sit-ins. But Walesa and Jaruzelski worked out a last-minute agreement that satisfied the Lodz workers' key demand: reinstatement of five sacked employees of an Interior Ministry...
Then the first real crack appeared in Poland's shaky labor truce: Solidarity members in Radom, 60 miles south of Warsaw, laid down their tools for five hours at several plants. They were protesting the government's failure to prosecute officials responsible for repression against local workers following the 1976 food price riots. In an apparent effort to head off a spiraling new round of labor upheavals, Jaruzelski invited Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa to meet with him in Warsaw on Saturday...
...bloc during the upcoming Soviet Party Congress in Moscow." In presiding over that nine-day Communist extravaganza, which begins this week, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev will want to paint Moscow's empire in the most favorable light possible; thus the timing of Poland's apparent labor truce works to the Kremlin's advantage. But when Kania returns from Moscow, his ears will almost certainly be ringing with stern warnings to halt his country's creeping pluralism...
...annual meeting of company stockholders in 1978. Then, five months later, a federal court set aside that decision saying that shareholders might have been unduly influenced by the last-minute court battle that had preceded it, and ordered another vote. Thereupon, the copper company negotiated a signed truce with Berner. Under its terms, Berner was given three seats on the 18-person Kennecott board of directors in exchange for a promise not to launch another proxy contest before the May 1981 annual meeting...
Early last week both sides laid down their stocks and ended the fight. The terms, in addition to the ten-year truce...