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...possibility of social unrest if unemployment rises to 3 million. I don't think there will be unrest. We have got this large figure of unemployment, which causes great distress. We try to alleviate it by every method possible. What we do is called selective help. Where areas are absolutely at their worst, we give special help. That's much better than just saying we'll flood the economy with printed money. The moment you pump in bad money it debases the value of good money. Before the end of this year there should be an improvement...
This time the walkouts were a challenge not only to Poland's Communist government, but to Solidarity, the independent labor union forged during last summer's unrest. The wildcat protests threatened to destroy Solidarity's hard-won unity and shatter the delicate detente between the union and the state. "We must stop all the strikes so that the government can say that Solidarity has the situation under control," warned Union Leader Lech Walesa. "We must concentrate on basic issues. There is a fire in the country...
...Soviet army newspaper Red Star pointedly reprinted a commentary from Warsaw's Trybuna Ludu warning against the "dangerous game" the Solidarity strikers were playing. Prague's Rude Pravo charged that Walesa had received orders from Pope John Paul II to initiate the latest round of labor unrest...
According to Western observers, there are two apparent reasons for the Soviets' self-imposed isolation. First, to keep impressionable young recruits from fraternizing with the Poles, who were deemed liable to infect their visitors with "subversive" ideas even before the current outbreak of labor unrest. Second, to protect the Soviets from possible abuse at the hands of the Polish people, who have harbored deep-seated anti-Russian feelings ever since Catherine the Great absorbed a large part of their country in the eighteenth century. Acts of violent hostility against the Soviet soldiers are unheard of, but the resentment against...
...Salvador's history of political upheaval, rebellion and repression began to pick up a dangerous momentum early in this century. Worker unrest resulted in the creation of a National Guard in 1912, but despite this governmental edict workers' parties only grew in number and strength. It was during this period--ten years after the First World War--that Farabundo Marti formed El Salvador's Communist Party to oppose the ruling oligarchy of foreigners and El Salvadorans willing to aid their interests. In the 50-odd years since then, tension between the workers and the government has increased...