Polish prices rise

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THE raised age of uary. Oppositionist Jac Polish government food prices by an aver10% at the end of JanBut for strong opposition, the increase would have been 15%. Pork chops go up 23% and ham 41%. This means that from now on Poles will spend up to 10% of their income on meat alone.

The government says that restrictions on meat will get tighter in the future.

Protests have come from the official trade unions as well as - and more importanth! - the Solidarity union banned when Jaruzelski came 1о ожет in 1981.

The price rises indicate the continuing crisis of the heavily-indebted Polish economy. Like their capitalist partners, the bureaucrats seek to resolve this crisis at the expense of Polish workers. and bleeding. I looked at the others stretched out on the floor alongside him... all burnt ... I don't know with what ... one of them had his chest slit with a knife, another's body carried the marks of a hot domestic iron all over his head to his feet ... another was burnt in such a way, even his hair, like someone who has been incinerated ... and every one was burnt in a different way.

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Relatively simple measures to improve nutrition and health could save the lives of seven million children each year, accord"In the last year alone" , they report, "the number of children who have died in the developing world is the equivalent of the entire under-five population of the United States.

"On a European scale, it is as if the combined young child populations of Britain, France, Italy, Spain and West Germany Sometimes it is straight starvation that kills children in the Third World, as in large areas of Africa hit by famine this year. More often it is the combination of malnutrition and disease.

Poor diet makes children more liable to disease, and it makes the diseases more dangerous. For example, children