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...India. Brenda Draper, London bureau picture researcher, worked with a variety of official British photographers and freelancers to obtain a steady flow of pictures for both stories. Correspondent Mary Cronin turned from organizing the wedding coverage on a master bulletin board to charting the causes of the social unrest. Correspondent Frank Melville, who has observed the British scene for 20 years, noted that "the ferocity of the street fighting seemed to challenge the very concept of 'the Queen's peace,' but undoubtedly the great majority of the British people will draw from the wedding a sense...
...described that reality the day before the congress adjourned. Clad as usual in full military uniform, standing ramrod-straight at the lectern, he read out a grim check list of Poland's woes: increasing consumer shortages, falling production, a crushing foreign debt, renewed strike threats. Alluding to possible unrest, and citing the party's "trust in the army," the general turned politician implied a willingness to suppress future disorders with military force...
...Poland's striking workers had won an unprecedented set of liberal concessions from Warsaw's Communist bosses, the country was reeling under a deepening economic crisis, and the party was in disarray. Hard-liners were calling for repressive measures that could spark a new wave of labor unrest; radicals demanded sweeping reforms that some feared might send Soviet tanks rolling across the border. What was needed, above all, was a strong, credible leadership and clear policies for dealing with the country's problems...
...sudden rash of work stoppages, the first cases of labor unrest in Poland since March, could hardly have come at a worse time for Party Boss Stanislaw Kania. Not only is he trying to grapple with the country's worst postwar economic crisis, amid shortages of everything from basic foodstuffs to vodka and cigarettes, but he faces a key test at this week's crucial party congress. Renewed unrest could create a hard-line backlash at the session, one which will determine the party's leadership and policies at a crucial juncture for the nation...
That optimism may be premature. Gromyko's very presence in Warsaw was a sign of Soviet concern at a moment of political change and uncertainty unparalleled in Poland's postwar history. Buffeted by a year of sporadic labor unrest and economic turmoil, faced with the constant threat of Soviet intervention, the Polish Communists last week completed the election of delegates to an extraordinary party congress. Its purpose: to elect party leaders and act on a series of proposed structural reforms that are expected to make the Polish Communist Party by far the most liberal in the Soviet bloc...