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Last spring two council members who were also ROTC cadets introduced a resolution urging the faculty to bring ROTC back to campus. It had been ejected 20 years before in the wake of massive student unrest and the takeover of University Hall...
Last spring two council members who were also ROTC cadets introduced a resolution urging the faculty to bring ROTC back to campus. It had been ejected 20 years before in the wake of massive student unrest and the takeover of University Hall...
...Council of Work Collectives denounced the measures, charging that they consigned recent Russian immigrants to a political "pale of settlement." At least 10,000 workers joined strikes at some 30 enterprises. Since most of the affected plants are under the control of Moscow ministries, many Estonians viewed the labor unrest as another in a series of provocations from conservative forces opposed to the Estonian campaign for local sovereignty...
...Kiszczak's experience at quelling unrest may be a primary reason why Jaruzelski pushed his candidacy. The seriousness of Poland's economic crisis cannot be overstated: labor unrest is growing, industrial production falling and annual inflation galloping along at 150%. Perhaps most serious of all, basic food staples are in short supply, a fact underscored last week by President Bush's announcement that the U.S. will provide Poland with a special $59 million food-aid package. The urgency is not lost in Warsaw. "If the future government does not find effective means to change this situation," Kiszczak warned...
...overhaul the economy. A World Bank report shows that state subsidies in Poland have grown alarmingly in recent years, and now amount to 30% of budget expenditures. To continue the supports is to risk bankruptcy. Yet removing them could create just the sort of hardship that provoked violent unrest in the past, leading to the downfall of governments in 1956, 1970 and again in 1980, the year Solidarity was born...