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...pressure rose again the following day when TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "counterrevolutionary groups" within Solidarity were turning to "open confrontation" with the Polish Communist Party and with factory and office administrators. At the Iskra ball bearing and spark plug factory in Kielce, TASS charged, workers had ousted the management and disarmed security guards. The dispatch, which originated in Warsaw, also said that officials of the pro-party trade unions had been replaced by "persons who openly adhere to antigovernment positions." Both Solidarity and the official Polish press denied the story...
...Party leadership he inherited in 1977. In the other is cautious, centrist, former Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, 58, who was discredited by scandal 3½ years ago, but has been battling ever since to regain the leadership. Peres and Rabin have served in Cabinets together, and they even live within two blocks of each other in the same Tel Aviv suburb of Ramat Aviv. Yet the two men are barely on speaking terms. They
...unusual solution for the common problem of skyrocketing energy prices. After consulting a geologist, they decided to dig their own natural gas well. While the community prayed for divine assistance, the two-man J & L Well Service Co. began drilling for gas on the nuns' 100-acre property. Within four days, natural gas was found; today this private energy source heats the two-story convent that houses 140 Benedictine nuns and a chapel that seats 300 people. The sisters' $105,000 investment-which came from selling stock they owned-has so far saved them $7,000 in heating...
That line is all right, within limits. If memory serves, the comic-strip Popeye spent some time in just that...
When the winter meeting opened in Dallas last week, less than a month after the free-agent draft, only eight of the big leagues' 48 free agents had signed new contracts. (In 1976, 18 of 22 free agents drafted signed fat contracts within a month.) A few, such as San Diego Superstar Dave Winfield, who is reportedly holding out for $20 million, have not signed because they expect the ante to jump with each passing day. But a number are simply finding that the market is less bullish. Furthermore, 18 minor-league players were drafted by big-league clubs...