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Poland's military bosses call Poznan their model city. While the workers of Gdansk, Warsaw and Katowice resisted, rioting and striking, after martial law was declared on Dec. 13, not a ripple of unrest was reported in the industrial center 175 miles west of the capital. Indeed, Zdzislaw Rozwalak, the leader of the local Solidarity chapter, had promptly furnished the state radio with a statement of support for martial law and condemned the union's behavior. Thus the regime of Wojciech Jaruzelski last week confidently chose Poznan as the showcase site for the first officially organized foreign press...
...replaced the Limann government with a Provisional National Defense Council and plans a support system of Libyan-style local "defense committees." U.S. and British officials fear that Rawlings may turn to Libya for help. But no political shift will solve the basic economic problems that are stirring the real unrest in a part of the world where ties with the West are already strained...
Bozzotto said that since March, employees of many restaurants in the Cambridge area have expressed interest in joining the union, which also represents the Harvard food services employees. "There seems to be great unrest in Cambridge among restaurant workers," he said...
...against the police." Lord Scarman concedes that while "institutional racism" does not exist in Britain, "racial disadvantage and its nasty associate racial discrimination have not yet been eliminated. They poison minds and attitudes. They are, and so long as they remain, will continue to be, a potent factor of unrest." Another incendiary element is Britain's continuing recession. More than half the blacks under age 19 in Brixton are jobless. To ignore such economic realities, writes Scarman, "is to put the nation in peril...
...actual source of the recent Central American unrest is the oppression and misery of those people--not Cuban intervention, Regalado said, adding "the fact that the administration is not addressing the real issue means the problem will not be solved...