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...built up slowly, purposefully, the demonstration threatened to become the violent clash that Poland had been dreading-and miraculously avoiding-through a precarious year of labor unrest and political change. About 100 trucks, buses and taxis wound their way through downtown Warsaw early last week. The vehicles in the convoy were draped with red and white national flags and banners proclaiming A HUNGRY NATION CAN EAT ITS BOSSES and GIVE US BREAD. Then, suddenly, traffic policemen halted the lead drivers as they approached the Communist Party's gray stone headquarters on Jerozolimskie Avenue...
...party congress had ended without drafting a plan for economic recovery. Strikes were erupting across the country in response to the government's decision last month to raise food prices by over 300% and cut meat rations by 20%. The Soviet press was rumbling again about the dangerous unrest in Poland. And Party Boss Stanislaw Kania was reported to be packing his bags for a possible meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the Soviet President's Crimean resort. At week's end, the government declared it would not pay workers who had struck, and the trade union Solidarity...
...latest unrest was sparked by the government's abrupt announcement two weeks ago that food prices would soon triple or even quadruple- and the simultaneous word that meat rations would be cut by 20%, allotting each person only 6.6 lbs. per month (average U.S. consumption: 12.5 lbs.). That decree was one too many for the Poles, who must line up as long as 14 hours for basic foodstuffs. Moreover, between 30% and 50% of those standing in the queues go away empty-handed because of shortages of virtually everything. Even in the relatively well-supplied city of Cracow, window...
...Liverpool (a sight beloved by television cameramen everywhere) vied on equal visual terms with royal fireworks in London; it was reminiscent of the way television juxtaposed street riots with the Chicago Democratic Convention in 1968. On CBS, Dan Rather gave an unusually downbeat report on Britain's social unrest, high unemployment and general decline. All three networks interviewed Britons eloquent about problems. Enoch Powell was trotted out, the dour fellow who once warned of a parallel with the river Tiber running red with blood in ancient Rome if "colored" immigration in Britain was not reduced. A Scottish M.P., Willie...
...government's price commission announced a series of proposed price hikes that would triple most food bills. Bread, for example, would jump from 21? to 64? a loaf. Simultaneously, the government will not be raising wages. The squeeze could turn out to be intolerable-and create even more unrest than before-although low- and middle-income Poles would be partially shielded from these increases by state subsidies. At the same time, the government announced a 20% cut in meat rations...