Poland faces deepening labor crisis as strikes spread
In Poland a widening labor crisis prompts Solidarity leader Lech Walesa to threaten general strikes if force is used against Bielsko-Biala workers who have been on strike for 10 days. Jelenia Gora protesters push for government action, while talks crumble with local Solidarity and government officials. The strike has halted about 120 plants, with losses exceeding 112 million dollars, and governors facing resignations amid political tensions.
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Solidarity
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Walesa
Jelenia Gora
Stanislaw Ciosek
Soviet Union
Warsaw Pact
Czeslaw Katela
Marion Kalon
Jozef Pinkowski
Leading terrorist arrested in Italy in Turin shootout
Maurice Bignami, 29, a leader of Front Line, was captured after a jewelery store hold up and a gun battle with police in Turin. He faced links to at least four assassinations over three years and was the gang’s last leader at large. Authorities, alerted by anti terror agents, identified him amid pistol and submachine gun fire that alarmed pedestrians.
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Maurice Bignami
Front Line
Bignami
Rome
Opposition alliance refuses to field presidential candidate in May vote
Manila AP report says an alliance of opposition parties will not field any candidate against President Ferdinand Marcos in the planned May presidential election. Former Sen. Gerardo Roxas told about 300 Manila Rotary Club members that Marcos should run alone and look ridiculous, while noting Marcos has ended martial law but retained many powers.
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Manila, Philippines
Ferdinand E. Marcos
Marcos
Gerardo Roxas
Manila
Philippines
Democratic
Roxas
Evictions Trigger Street Clash in Goettingen
Police and demonstrators fought in Goettingen after about 150 squatters were evicted from two apartment buildings. Roughly 1,000 people protested, setting a government housing office on fire and damaging a Christian Democratic Party office. Reinforcements arrived and order was restored around 4 a.m. No injuries or arrests were reported immediately.
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Goettingen
West Germany
Christian Democratic Party
Braunschweig
Doomed Al Meraj smuggling ship leaves 48 dead at sea
About 50 Pakistanis smuggled to the Middle East died of hunger and thirst as their disabled motor launch drifted for three weeks in the Arabian Sea. Twenty-five survivors were rescued February 1 by the Niagara Falls and hospitalized in Karachi. Three men were arrested.
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Pakistan
UPI
Middle East
Arabian Sea
Al-Meraj
West German doubts over neutron bomb deployment
Bonn spokesman Kurt Becker questioned the basis for deploying neutron weapons as Germany faces new NATO missile decisions. Weinberger backs enhanced radiation weapons, while Chancellor Schmidt navigates US shifts and internal party resistance amid broader European missile increases.
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New York Times Service
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Caspar W. Weinberger
Helmut Schmidt
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West Germany
Kurt Becker
Europe
Schmidt
Atlantic Alliance
Germany
Becker
Weinberger
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