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...Poland's rulers are fooling themselves if they believe Solidarity will quietly disappear. On Sunday and Monday, thousands of men and women stopped working in the Gdansk shipyards to protest the ban. Fugitive leaders of Solidarity called Monday for a four-hour nationwide strike on November 10. Outlawed or not, the union can still be a painful thorn in Jaruzelski's side...
Schlevin attributed the act of vandalism, which he said was the first attack on Jewish property in Providence in years, to a combination of anti-Israeli feeling due to the Lebanon invasion and domestic economic problems. "This would all disappear if the economy took an upturn," he added...
Harvard's ivy may disappear from the walls of Lowell and Winthrop House this year, but if an Arnold Arboretum fundraising scheme is successful, it will continue to thrive in the gardens and yards of University alums...
...experts, though, say that the paybacks represent a permanent deterioration in the power of unions. Says Malcolm Denise, a labor lawyer and former head of labor relations at Ford Motor Co.: "Unions are experiencing a long-term decline because of shifting employment patterns. I don't see them disappearing from the industries that they have dominated, though some of those industries may disappear." David Lewis, a professor of business history at the University of Michigan, supports that view. Says he: "The prognosis is not good. Blue-collar workers have moved to the suburbs and lost interest, and unions have...
...other major force in Polish life, has been reluctant to provoke the military government openly, fearing that such a move might lead to more stringent controls and possible "fraternal" assistance from the Soviet Union. Some church sources have conceded in private that Solidarity, as an organization, may have to disappear in order for its ideas to live on. Still, in the absence of any formal opposition to the regime, the church has tried to press the authorities for some form of national dialogue. Last week Archbishop Jozef...