Word: communique
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreeing to work every fourth Saturday. In effect, that abrogated a guarantee of work-free Saturdays, which the government had promised in last summer's historic strike settlement. Solidarity's national commission wrangled for eleven hours before voting to accept the pact, which the final union communiqué coldly described as "falling far short of expectations...
There was little doubt about the motivation behind the determined harmony inside Poland: the continuing menace of 55 Soviet divisions that remained poised within striking distance of Poland's borders. On New Year's Day, in fact, TASS issued a communiqué that accused "antisocialist forces" in Solidarity of seeking "to push matters to the point of chaos in the economy, hoping to further their subversive aims...
...judge, carried out once again by the Red Brigades, sadly recalled the Moro affair. The victim in this case was Magistrate Guido Giovanni D'Urso, responsible for overseeing the assignment of prisoners in Italy's penitentiaries. The terrorists struck a fortnight before Christmas and have issued "communiqués" with photographs of D'Urso, gaunt and unshaven, seated before a Red Brigades flag and looking much as Moro did during his captivity. The brigatisti have threatened to try him before a "people's court...
Though rumors of the ailing 76-year-old ex-Premier's death had been circulating insistently in Moscow, the official communiqué had been postponed while the Kremlin leaders apparently considered how much posthumous praise should be accorded their late comrade. There was an inconvenient fact: Kosygin had died on the eve of Brezhnev's birthday, when the Soviet press traditionally publishes panegyrics to the Soviet President, now 74. When the birthday celebrations were over, Brezhnev and other Soviet leaders finally paid tribute to Kosygin with such ritual phrases as: "he labored selflessly for the good...
...crisis atmosphere eased somewhat at week's end, after leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations, including Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, were summoned to Moscow for a secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties." The statement also noted that Poland "can firmly count on" the support of its East bloc brethren, meaning that the Soviets were still ready to step in if need...