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...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 to a union, on the ground that they are self-employed. Angered by that earlier decision, farmers had threatened to withhold their produce from government markets, a move that would have sharply aggravated the country's already critical food shortages. The farmers had even talked of a strike unless their right to organize was recognized. Plans for both the embargo and the strike were shelved after the supreme court decision...
...interminable queues of voters to wait for more than twelve hours at many polling booths. As a result, there was a second, unscheduled day of balloting. Even as the votes were counted, the ruling military commission headed by Paulo Muwanga first imposed, and then reversed, a highhanded decision to withhold the election results and even nullify them. Finally, after conflicting victory claims by the rival parties, the first official results showed that the apparent winner was the broadly based United People's Congress (U.P.C.), headed by Milton Obote, 56, the shrewd, sometimes ruthless former President who was deposed...
...speakers from each of two teams argued a case questioning the right of an attorney to withhold evidence concerning a client from an investigating agency...
...Thomas Merton. He was not entirely the Tory skinflint that his denunciations of the welfare state suggested; he assigned a number of foreign royalties to Catholic charities. His prejudices were surprisingly flexible. He enjoyed mocking the U.S. and calling its citizens "louts"; yet he told his agent to withhold publishing rights from Communist countries because they "might use Loved One as anti-American propaganda." Editor Amory does a superb job of reconstructing this complex, hidden man. The job was not easy; one nickname-filled early letter requires 31 footnotes. All the work was worth it. One of this century...
...There's a privilege to withhold these documents," Donald L. Reidhaar, legal counsel of the University of California said in a telephone interview Monday. He said that University officials feared that third parties could gain access to the documents at some point in the future through the Freedom of Information Act if they were released to government agencies...