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...raise food prices by over 300% and cut meat rations by 20%. The Soviet press was rumbling again about the dangerous unrest in Poland. And Party Boss Stanislaw Kania was reported to be packing his bags for a possible meeting with Leonid Brezhnev at the Soviet President's Crimean resort. At week's end, the government declared it would not pay workers who had struck, and the trade union Solidarity called for a temporary halt to the protests until its leaders could assess the situation...
Throughout its 195 years as the crisply formal dowager of Fleet Street, the Times of London has written a glorious history for itself. The newspaper reported the grim news of the doomed charge of the Light Brigade in the Crimean War and brought word to Britain of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo. Alas, it appears that the "Thunderer," as the Times has long been known, may soon meet its own Waterloo. Last month the paper's proprietor, Lord Thomson of Fleet, announced that the Times (circ. 315,700) and its sister Sunday Times (circ. 1,418,500) would...
...Mathematician Tatiana Velikanova, 47, another Muscovite, is a longtime champion of the persecuted Seventh-day Adventists, Crimean Tartars and Jewish "refuseniks" who have been denied per mission to emigrate abroad...
...then that Jesse Jackson, for example, has singled out the Palestinians for his first major foray into global human rights?" Dershowitz asked. He said there are 44 other major subordinated peoples in the world that Jackson seems to be overlooking, citing the Kurds in Iraq and Iran, Crimean Tatars, Ethiopian Jews, and French Canadians as examples...
Many people know about the problem, but we don't know why our government does not want Crimean Tarta in Crimea. Crimea is a place of tourism and hotels for the political elite and these people are not good for the government. They want these Tartars to live in Uzbekistan, far from the government...