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Political Fallout. A new economic plan, which goes into effect Jan. 1, aims at redirecting Poland's economic energies into more dynamic and profitable industries. Under the plan, factories are required to finance 80% of their own expansion from profits, so that only the ones producing high-quality and wanted goods will be able to grow. Polish workers, whose wages have had little connection with the quality of their performance, will now be given bonuses for extra achievement. At the same time, plant managers will be given a greater voice in setting production goals...
Unlike the Hungarian economic reform, the Polish plan has a major weakness in that it does not move far enough toward a market economy and gives central planners in Warsaw veto rights over production quotas. Some Western observers believe that Warsaw conservatives will stifle the plan in fear that the economy is moving out of their grasp. But most Poles remain hopeful. Some even believe that the plan could have important political consequences. "Certainly you cannot have economic reforms without some political reforms," says Mieczyslaw Rakowski, 44, editor in chief of the authoritative weekly Polityka. Rakowski, a candidate member...
Barefoot Doctors. Despite the infighting, China's planners have reached a consensus on one "great strategic plan." It is a blueprint for comprehensive reform designed to change social, economic and educational life for decades to come. Though the long-term goal remains industrialization, the plan calls for an initial revitalization of rural life by moving urban industries and vast numbers of people to the countryside...
Today the band examines what students did with the celebrated "Princeton Plan." (Bang to CRAM.) While some of their cohorts were out working for political candidates, academically-minded Princetonians had their own ideas what to do with the Princeton Plan. (Play. "The Work Song," then jump to MEET...
...this point, Chavez decided to move into Salinas. The UFW began to organize the workers around three points: the recognition of the right of workers to form their own union, the institution of a health care plan, and the increase of the hourly wage...