Poland: Back from the Brink

Warsaw buys time as peace breaks out on the labor front

In a red brick building at the University of Lodz, eleven student strike leaders and four government negotiators faced each other over two green cloth-covered tables. On one wall hung a six-foot white paper cross; on the others posters bearing slogans of protest and defiance. At 4 p.m. Sociology Student Krzysztof Pakulski began to read a complicated agreement that had been hammered out and haggled over during two weeks of often hot-tempered negotiations, and which now signaled the end of a spreading...

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