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Meanwhile, it appeared that a new cycle of labor calm might ease the rising tensions. In southwestern Jelenia Gora, workers ended a two-day general strike after the government agreed to convert a party sanitarium into a public hospital. After Jaruzelski's dramatic public appeal for a 90-day moratorium, Solidarity's national commission in Gdansk canceled a threatened printers' strike and ruled out all other work stoppages for the time being. But Union Leader Lech Walesa added that "our ultimate response to the call for a moratorium will depend on what happens during negotiations with...
Sadat, accompanied by his wife Jehan, next flew to Paris for what had been billed as a two-day private visit to the French capital. Instead, it had all the makings of a state affair. Accompanied by his wife Anne-Aymone, the protocol-conscious Giscard broke with custom by meeting the Sadats at the airport (something he never does unless it is an official state visit), escorted them on a leisurely tour of the city, then hosted a lunch at the Elysee Palace. Afterward, Giscard and Sadat spent two hours talking privately...
Dasher Karen Blount took respectable thirds in both the 55 meter and 200 meter events, and with a win in the two mile relay to cap a perfect day, the trackster crew headed back to Cambridge to enjoy their first real two-day weekend in a very long time...
When Walesa returned to Gdansk to report to Solidarity's national commission during its two-day meeting, his account of the Warsaw talks was cautiously pessimistic. "They are trying to dismantle us quietly," he said. "We must realize that Solidarity is a thorn in the government's side." The Solidarity delegates, in accordance with the summer agreements, proclaimed their call for a five-day work week and warned against any attempt to compensate by wage reductions or loss of other holidays. The resolution did leave the government an out, however, by declaring that the union leadership would listen...
...nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries gathered under unusual circumstances last week amid lush tropical greenery on the resort island of Bahi, Indonesia. For the first time in the group's history, two of its members were at war, and the battlefield confrontation threatened to spread into the conference room, thus weakening the cartel's fearsome control over oil prices. But after a two-day meeting, the OPEC nations agreed unanimously not to let the war between Iran and Iraq get in the way of boosting the price of oil by $2 to $4 per bbl. The price...