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...event and to speed her trips home next fall from the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign, her father Drew is buying Heather a new car to replace her 1989 Pontiac Sunbird. What will it be? On such questions turns the fate of the U.S. auto industry in this grimmest spring in memory...
When Father Jerzy Popieluszko, 37, was abducted on a lonely stretch of road outside the city of Torun on Oct. 19, many Poles refused to believe that the popular priest could have been the victim of gangland-style violence. During the grimmest hours of military rule, Popieluszko's eloquence and passionate dedication had offered hope to many Poles that the spirit of Solidarity, the banned trade-union movement, would somehow survive. But each passing day brought new revelations of involvement by the secret police in a plot to silence Popieluszko. Hope for the priest's safe return soon...
...British government appears to think so. Last month the National Water Council, which represents regional water authorities in England and Wales, issued its grimmest report ever on the state of the salmon. Illegal catches-the council refrained from using the word poaching-have become so heavy that in some areas they are double the legal catch. Even though the government is spending $4 million annually on a force of 245 water bailiffs to combat illegal fishing in English and Welsh rivers, the salmon may face extinction...
...movie gets underway, we realize that we have actually missed most of man's grimmest hour. Christianity has penetrated deep into the British backwoods, while the monster population has taken a perilous tailspin. Only one winged geezer remains, living quietly for the most part with a litter of dragon cubs. Understandably, even one fire-breathing creature has the locals a little unnerved, especially since once a month, their ruler picks a young maiden to be fed to the beast. Thus the search for a savior begins, setting up the required battle of good versus evil...
...burden for a country whose hard currency reserves are dangerously low and whose industrial production has dropped by 10% just in the past year. Even the official Polish Press Agency last week admitted that because of the nation's economic turmoil, the first quarter of 1981 was the "grimmest" in Poland's postwar history. To complete the gloomy landscape, a critical food shortage, compounded by panic buying, has resulted in frustratingly long lines in front of near empty shops...