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...This is a painful warning to us," he said. "We should think about it deeply." Solidarity's dilemma remains as formidable today as it was a year ago-to press its case forcefully; but never hard enough to bring destruction. -By William E. Smith. Reported by Richard Hornik/ Warsaw...
...When Pianist Youri Egorov failed to make the finals of the Van Cliburn four years ago, outraged fans launched him by raising an equivalent of the first-prize money themselves. Similarly, when Yugoslav-born Ivo Pogorelich, 22, was eliminated before the last round of the recent Chopin competition in Warsaw, one judge, Pianist Martha Argerich, resigned in protest. The incident became a musical cause célèbre. Pogorelich's first U.S. record includes wayward but ultimately persuasive interpretations of the Chopin Funeral March sonata and six shorter pieces. Lightning tempos in some works, such...
...that the present monthly allotment of 6.6 lbs. per person might be reduced rather than increased as had been expected. Solidarity spokesmen said they would continue to press for an economic reform package that would include subsidies for consumers with lower incomes. Otherwise, warned the union's Warsaw chapter, the price hikes could lead to "an explosion of uncontrolled social protest." It was a threat the government could not take lightly: the issue of food prices, after all, had touched off the July 1980 strikes that in turn led to the birth of Solidarity. The government now says...
First, there were some personal differences to mend: this was Kama's first meeting with Brezhnev since the Kremlin's June 5 letter blasting the Polish leader for being soft on "counterrevolution." Then Kania had some explanations to give about last month's party congress in Warsaw-an unprecedented session that democratized the party's structure and purged much of its leadership. Most urgent of all was what to do about the latest wave of strikes and demonstrations sparked by Poland's critical food shortage...
...some Kremlin tolerance was a decision to defer Poland's debt payments to the Soviets. It may have helped that Kania had not waited for his summons to the Crimea to adopt a hard line at home. Addressing the first session of the newly elected Central Committee in Warsaw early last week, he grimly warned: "We must find a way to make Polish streets peaceful again or the logic of events could lead to the greatest national tragedy." Speaker after speaker followed Kania to the lectern to denounce the independent Solidarity trade union for encouraging the food protests...