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...folks who watched the game last November, but we must ask why anyone was allowed inside when there was even a chance that the Stadium might tumble down. Reardon inspires little confidence when he speaks of parts of the structure that "are so corroded that you can hit the steel beams with a hammer and it crumbles." If things have reached such a state, perhaps the 78-year-old stadium should be closed--at least temporarily--to make sure its occupants are safe...
...after day, the rhetoric grew shriller. TASS, the Soviet news agency, fired barrages against the Solidarity union federation, accusing its leaders of spreading "dirty and slanderous" anti-Soviet propaganda. As part of a well-orchestrated proletarian protest, workers at Moscow's Hammer and Sickle steel plant approved a letter denouncing Solidarity as a band of "counterrevolutionaries" and invoking the Warsaw Pact's duty to "defend socialism and its achievements from any encroachments." Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, in a speech before the United Nations General Assembly, bitterly accused the West of "interference in [Poland's] internal affairs...
takeovers of the Dassault-Breguet aircraft company, two steel producers and three companies partly owned by U.S. and West German interests...
...idea that the state should own major industries conjures up images of such titans of inefficiency as the Postal Service or British Steel. French Socialists cite a far different example: the Renault automobile company, which General Charles de Gaulle nationalized in 1945 to punish Founder-Owner Louis Renault for allegedly collaborating with the Nazi Occupation and which today stands out as one of France's most dynamic enterprises...
...major deterioration in the stadium is in the steel beams that support the concrete grandstands. Over the years, rainwater, often mixed with salt and other substances, has seeped into the cracks between the slabs that make up the seating areas, and has severely corroded these beams and the concrete around them...