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Perhaps not. But if the game could be saved at all, union and government leaders would have to work fast to resolve their remaining conflicts. The most immediate potential flash point was Radom, a grimy industrial city 60 miles south of Warsaw. On Thursday, members of the local Solidarity chapter unanimously voted to launch a two-hour work stoppage this week-and a province-wide genera strike on March 23-unless the government begins talks on a set of 19 demands. Foremost among them: the sacking of the provincial governor and other officials responsible for the brutal suppression...
...Radom strike call was issued in spite of Walesa's personal appeal for moderation. After his meeting with the Polish Premier, Walesa assured Radom Union Leader Andrzej Sobieraj that the offending government officials would be dismissed within a few days. Replied Sobieraj: the Radom chapter would postpone its strike plans, if-but only if-those dismissals actually materialized. At week's end, the Communist Party newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that one official, the Radom party chief, had secretly resigned ten days earlier...
Solidarity's Warsaw chapter quickly called on Poles "to stand against the attempt at anti-Semitic action." The Communist Party also rejected the incipient antiSemitism. Said Party Chief Stanislaw Kania: "We do not think that the possibility exists to use anti-Semitism for any purpose. It was always foreign to Communists and contradictory to the tragic experiences of the Polish nation." There were signs last week that most Poles agreed. After the rally, flags, flowers and an anti-Semitic plaque left by the protesting veterans were angrily removed...
...goes the novel, with the collision force of mean men's fists or lovers' thighs. Chapter One: Frank and Cora meet. Two: they make big bloody love. Three: they plot the murder of her husband Nick. Four: the murder attempt fails. Five: they set out for a life on the road, then split. Six: Frank returns to her. Seven: this time they do kill Nick. Eight: they make love over his corpse. Nine: they are charged with his murder. Ten, Eleven, Twelve ... In bold, remorseless strokes, and fewer than 100 pages, James M. Cain etched a portrait...
...more expressive was John Harbison's Samuel Chapter (1978), for soprano and small ensemble. Composer Harbison presents an episode from the Old Testament's First Book of Samuel in a deliberately archaic way, lending his work an austere, ceremonial quality that suits the text well...