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...usual fractious party conclave at a slightly seamy seaside resort that Britons have come to know and sometimes dread. Burnishing its image as the new model of British politics, the Social Democratic Party chartered a special train (promptly dubbed the "Flying Moderate" by some, the "Smoked Salmon Special" by others) for its first conference last week and took its show on the road for a rollicking six-day, three-city, thousand-mile extravaganza. The tour ingeniously gave each of the party's four leaders, Roy Jenkins, Shirley Williams, William Rodgers and David Owen, who are all former Labor Cabinet...
With the state-run supply system on the verge of collapse, most Poles must turn to alternate sources for food and other scarce items. Those with friends or relatives abroad may get some of what they need via parcel post. Others resort to barter: a mechanic might trade two quarts of motor oil to a salesgirl for a pound of coffee; in Silesia, the miners are reportedly trading coal to farmers for meat. For exorbitant prices, or hard Western currency, almost anything can be gotten on the black market. Sample prices: blue jeans, $180; one pint of vodka...
...idiot, when the pay is bad or the job insecure or unrewarding, then the worker experiences a strangely intimate and fundamental sense of betrayal, a wound very close to the core. Or perhaps the wound is his discovery that the core is empty. And with that discovery, he may resort to a pistol, a length of rope or a fistful of pills, leaving behind a note: "Burned...
...traffic controllers broke the law and as such had been cast as outlaws and traitors. But against that reasoning, they took a courageous stance for freedom. The collective bargaining system has no validity if one side lacks leverage, and striking appears to be the measure of last resort by which employees can exert pressure on their employers...
...Communist Party's Central Committee, mindful of Moscow's warning that Poland should not resort to "non-Leninist" means in trying to solve its economic problems, is taking a fairly hard line on the subject. Insisting that the state would not give up its right to choose managers, Party Boss Stanislaw Kania warned Solidarity that the government would use "any means necessary to defend socialism." The Central Committee seemed ready, however, to offer two concessions: 1) the state would be prepared to select directors from lists of candidates submitted by workers' councils; and 2) the workers...