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Newspaper
Southern Illinoisan
Location
Carbondale, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1981
Page
8
Libyan leader Muammar Khadafy moves to centralize the economy with a single government controlled pay scale. All Libyan workers will be assigned to 16 grades with 10 steps per grade, salaries from 3366 to 27324 dollars annually. The reform aims to narrow wage gaps but may disrupt the oil economy and bureaucracy.
Tens of thousands of Polish Americans across the United States voiced outrage and concern as Poland declared martial law and Solidarity leaders were arrested. In New York, Chicago, Philadelphia and other centers, demonstrations were emotional yet nonviolent as clergy, scholars and diplomats urged justice, fearing possible Soviet intervention and civil conflict.
Andrei Sakharov and his wife Elizaveta Alekseyeva emerge from hunger strike with weight loss and weakness but share elation in a hospital suite. Alekseyeva says they were not force-fed. she and Natalia Gesse witnessed Sakharov's joyful reaction as doctors prepared to connect him to care.
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