Polish strike widens as government reshuffles leadership
In Gdansk deputy premier Tadeusz Pyka was ousted from the mediation panel amid a Baltic coast strike now eight days old with around 130000 workers walking out. Detentions were made in Warsaw including dissident Jacek Kuron as authorities seek to curb anti government information. A call by 62 intellectuals urged negotiated settlement to avert a 1970 style riot.
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Gdansk
Poland
Tadeusz Pyka
Baltic
Warsaw
Pyka
Mieczyslaw Jagielski
Lublin
Lenin
Lenin Shipyard
Puka
Commission
Szczecin
Nowa Huta
Jacek Kuron
Underground Committee For Social Defense
Kuron
V.I. Lenin
Dansk
Wladyslaw Gomulka
Kremlin Jams Russian News Broadcasts Across USSR
Reports indicate heavy interference on Russian language shortwave as Voice of America and BBC broadcasts into the Soviet Union are being jammed. Officials differ, with Moscow denying the claims while U S embassy monitors confirm heavy jamming. The incident follows past Soviet jamming episodes in 1968 and 1956.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Poland
Voice of America
VOA
U.S
State Department
Washington
London
British Broadcasting Corp
BBC
Czechoslovakia
Hungary