Toy army sale nets record prices for miniature soldiers
London bidders paid a world record 500 for a single 3 inch tall private army figure from Len Richards 17000 figure collection. A set of 12 Life Guards bandsmen with mounted figures sold for 2800, as collectors from five continents competed in the auction of the late bank clerk’s attic army.
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Solidarity Calls National Newspaper Strike in Poland
Solidarity leaders in Gdansk call for a national press strike August 19-20 to protest anti union propaganda by the Polish government and the Communist Party. The spokesman notes this echoes the August 20, 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia by Warsaw Pact troops led by the Soviet Union.
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Poland braces for historic nationwide newspaper strike
Solidarity plans a countrywide newspaper strike amid government and Communist Party criticism and media access limits. Archbishop Glemp met Stanislaw Kania as tensions rise over the anti union campaign and economic woes. The union calls for ending unauthorized protests and eight work free Saturdays to ease the crisis, while seeking greater worker self management.
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