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What the two men did not do, however, was resolve other volatile issues that could at any moment erupt into a new wave of labor upheavals. In Radom the local Solidarity chapter was threatening strikes at 340 factories. In Poznan 490 farm delegates gathered from all over the country to join forces in a 2 million-member organization that was loudly demanding legal status as an independent agricultural union. In Warsaw and other centers, union members and their advisers claimed that they were being subjected to police harassment. Last week, for example, Dissident Leader Adam Michnik was detained by Warsaw...
...chapter, Wat and Simsa use code words when planning the school's curriculum, to disguise its purpose. Here, the language of death is couched in apparently harmless acronyms: CURMODEX for 'Curriculum in Modern Execution,' GENTO for 'General Torture,' HANAP and TINA for 'hanging apparatus' and 'guillotine', respectively. A proposed weekly schedule contains such course topics as CURMODEX, 'computing voltage (by both methods) and practice with simulator; PSYCH, 'torture at Christmas time' or 'importance of humor...
...national union leaders were having trouble reining in restive local chapters. Even before Kuron's arrest, workers in the textile center of Lodz declared a strike alert over the firing of five hospital employees. On Saturday, Lodz union officials scheduled a series of warning strikes for this week unless the five are rehired. The Solidarity chapter in Plock, meanwhile, prepared to issue a strike alert to protest censorship of their local union bulletin; entreaties from Warsaw union leaders, however, convinced them to hold...
...truth is that the most magnificent pattern in biology is evolution," says he, but we don't spell it out for the students. We talk about 'change' a lot, but we try not to say the word 'evolution' very much. So we have a chapter on birds, and one on amphibians. But we don't say how they are connected." Observes Frank Spica, a biology teacher in Evanston, Ill.: "If you ask me, I think the creationists have won. They've not passed any legislation, but they've got the text books...
Except that, in this novel, they do not end. In the final chapter, Lisa and her stepson arrive at a place that might be Palestine. Refugees are streaming in, including friends whom Lisa thought dead. Oddly, Freud, who died in 1939, is there too, as is her mother, who perished in a hotel fire decades earlier. The two women walk and talk calmly about the mother's infidelities and the daughter's response, so many years ago. Their milk flows. They are happy, beyond pleasure and pain...