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...built up slowly, purposefully, the demonstration threatened to become the violent clash that Poland had been dreading-and miraculously avoiding-through a precarious year of labor unrest and political change. About 100 trucks, buses and taxis wound their way through downtown Warsaw early last week. The vehicles in the convoy were draped with red and white national flags and banners proclaiming A HUNGRY NATION CAN EAT ITS BOSSES and GIVE US BREAD. Then, suddenly, traffic policemen halted the lead drivers as they approached the Communist Party's gray stone headquarters on Jerozolimskie Avenue...
...party congress had come and gone, government officials had promised new approaches to old programs, but still the anger grew. In Warsaw, some 2,000 textile workers quit their jobs for three hours, and many municipal bus drivers refused to go out on their routes. In Lodz, the country's second largest city, caravans of trucks and buses drove into the center of town with headlights flashing and horns blaring to the cheers of thousands of approving onlookers. The vehicles were festooned with red and white national flags and banners bearing such blunt messages as HUNGER and WE STAND...
...taking steps to stock Poland's larder. Last week the Reagan Administration announced plans to grant Warsaw $55 million in long-term credits to buy and transport 350,000 metric tons of U.S. corn to Poland to help save the country's threatened poultry industry. The Administration also authorized the Catholic Relief Services agency to buy surplus American agricultural products at low prices for shipment to Poland. Reflecting just how critical its food shortage has become, Poland has attracted the concern of CARE, the New York City-based charity that first gained international recognition in 1946 by sending...
...Philip Johnston, the program was inspired by a worried wave of calls, letters and donations from Polish Americans. When the organization first approached Polish authorities in early May about the possibility of sending food aid, says the CARE spokesman, "their reaction was remarkably favorable." The final agreement, signed in Warsaw in June, allows CARE to supervise distribution of the packages. They will be sent to the neediest groups: the elderly, young children, pregnant women and nursing mothers. The spectacle of capitalist charity aiding the victims of Communist economic shortcomings was heavy with political symbolism. Said Aloysius Mazewski, president...
...into upper Bavaria, a less likely battlefield than the north German plain or the Fulda Gap in central Germany but perhaps a tributary invasion route. A feisty Lieut. Colonel from Florence, Ala., Tony Brinkley, 39, thinks the Second could give "the Pact" (the Soviets plus Eastern Europe, as in Warsaw Pact) a lot of trouble. Some of the men in the tanks and armored personnel carriers are considerably more tentative, a not unusual nuance in an army...