Word: though
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1980
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Solidarity is not a monolith, nor is it a creature of Walesa, though he is certainly its symbol and central force. Solidarity's 18-member leadership sprang directly from last summer's 21-day strike, and thus has a distinct Baltic coast flavor. Many are experienced labor activists who have been in trouble with the authorities before. One presidium member, Anna Walentynowicz, 51, was fired from her job as a crane operator a week before the Lenin Shipyard flare-up last August. "The immediate cause of the strike was to have me rehired," she says with a trace...
...Rich Man, Poor Man and Washington Behind Closed Doors, with Polish voiceovers. Krzysztof, who has never traveled outside Poland, says: "If I had a choice of vacations I'd go to the U.S., but it's so expensive I don't even dream about it." Though the Ursus factory provides vacation centers for its workers along the Baltic Sea or in Poland's lake district, the Karasiewiczes prefer to spend their 3½ weeks of vacation tending a 3,200-sq.-ft. plot of land, ten minutes away from their apartment, which they received free...
...likely candidate for self-reliance. Its barren, eroded soil supports few crops or even trees. The pastoral people subsist on beans, maize, goats and a few dairy cattle. A drought last summer was so severe that it took $9.28 million in emergency aid from Pretoria to avert mass starvation. Though the territory is already densely populated, the government, under a "resettlement" program, sends in truckloads of unwanted blacks from urban areas. Once in Ciskei, many of the new arrivals live in stark tent towns with no schools, shops or running water...
...said he looked like a "yellow skeleton." Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still die even though he was immediately transferred to a Belfast hospital...
...being forced to step down as Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party, theoretically the country's most powerful position. There was no official confirmation - or denial. Nonethe less, it seemed a good bet that some abrupt bit of palace intrigue had indeed toppled Hua from his post, though the change may not formally take place until a party Congress can be convened next year. Hua's most likely successor is a man who has lately been receiving unusually prominent treatment in the Chinese press: Hu Yaobang, 65, the party's current Secretary-General and an ally...