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Clearly, many Poles felt that it was high time to cool the country's labor unrest. There was an almost palpable sense of relief when the Polish supreme court postponed a ruling on the right of Poland's 3.2 million private farmers to form their own union, thus defusing a new crisis. The farm leaders were jubilant over the court's apparent readiness to study ways of legalizing a Rural Solidarity movement patterned on Walesa's Solidarity. Only last September the Warsaw district court had ruled that Poland's private farmers were not entitled...
Bloated beyond its architects' intent, welfarism is threatening bankruptcy in some countries. Attempts to curb its excesses are beginning to cause political disruption and even social unrest. In France and Britain, labor unions and other groups have demonstrated against cutbacks in medical and education benefits. In Belgium and The Netherlands, attempts to slash welfare spending have helped trigger Cabinet crises, along with protests involving workers, students, doctors and even pharmacists. In Sweden, long a model of social consensus, unions and employers paralyzed the country last spring with nine days of work stoppages over wage claims that eventually forced...
...York City. Daughtry represents an unsystematic synthesis of conservative Christian theology, Black culture and radical economics. Viewing the practice of theology as emancipatory politics, the Pentecostal minister calls for Blacks to unite progressive forces to challenge the present profit-motive emphasis of the country. He likens present-day Black unrest and struggles to that of major Biblical characters who fought against injustice; according to Daughtry such a challenge is, in fact, the will of God. "In the West, religion has always sanctioned oppression. We divest the Bible of its European character. We worship the God of oppressed peoples," he says...
...year. It began with the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan and ended with the threat of an invasion of Poland. In between came a plague of humiliations: outpourings of international protest over Afghanistan; a partial boycott of the Moscow Olympic Games; reports of brief but ominous incidents of labor unrest in Soviet factories; the second disastrous harvest in a row; new tensions with China; the collapse (at least temporarily) of arms control negotiations with the West; the election of a new American President whose rhetoric is explicitly anti-Soviet; and finally the Polish crisis, which posed the most serious challenge...
Thousands of moneymen also discovered that the glitter of gold and silver can be a sometime thing. Unrest in the Middle East and inflation in the U.S. sent the price of gold soaring to a high of $875 per oz. in late January, an increase of more than $300 in less than four weeks. That same month, silver went from $39.50 per oz. to $50.35 per oz. People rushed to determine the value of their ancestral sterling silverware or gold rings, and of that was soon in the melting ovens metal dealers. The inevitable sell-off followed even more quickly...