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...same time, the new regime may be obliged to use intimidation or raw force in Eastern Europe, where it might face unrest and rebellion, similar to that in Poland, during the rest of the 1980s. "The Soviet imperial system is suffering from a sickness, a deep systemic crisis," says Bialer. "For the Kremlin, Poland is not a cold, but pneumonia." With their stagnant economy, the Soviets will not be able to apply the balm of aid to their satellite states. This, in turn, could plunge the fragile economies of Eastern Europe into even deeper trouble...
...represented the more liberal, farming eastern side, to battle each other. Roberts, whose weatherbeaten, mustachioed face has peered out of an ad as the visage of the Marlboro Man, ran a bumbling campaign and lost to Daschle, a hard-driving sophisticate. Said Roberts, resignedly: "There is a lot of unrest out there, a lot of impatience. I can understand that...
...university has as its voice on the Middle East is pretty important these days," he said, explaining that the current unrest in the area has prompted journalists to elicit regular opinions from academic specialists...
...Going off the gold standard was in emotional concern to me," Katz said. He added that he saw the seeds of social unrest in the subsequent inflation and shortages of consumer goods. Discouraged, he quit his job, began a financial writing career and joined the Libertarian party...
Although 50 Polish bishops were at St. Peter's, the country's Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp of Warsaw, stayed at home because of his fear of civil unrest. He celebrated an outdoor Mass at Niepokalanow (City of the Immaculate), a friary founded by Kolbe 25 miles west of Warsaw. John Paul, in a noontime address following the canonization, denounced the dissolution of the independent union Solidarity as "a violation of the fundamental rights of man and society." (Poland's state radio and television censored this criticism in its coverage of the ceremonies.) Next day, facing an audience...