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Workers at the Lenin shipyard, in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, laid down their tools on Aug. 14 and refused to leave. As news of the strike spread, an unemployed electrician named Lech Walesa climbed over the shipyard's iron-bar fence and into history. Under his leadership, the workers demanded higher wages, an earlier retirement age, better food supplies and, in a daring political challenge to the regime, the right to organize independent trade unions...
...Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Co. (commonly known as the P. & O. line), the 16,907-ton Uganda and the 45,000-ton Canberra, and fitted them for military duty with astonishing alacrity. The Uganda, an "educational cruise liner" that normally carries 900 or more students around the Baltic and the Mediterranean, needed only modest modifications to be transformed into a floating 1,000-bed hospital. At a British navy dockyard in Gibraltar, 300 workers fitted the ship's stern with prefabricated steel helicopter pads. A smoking room and veranda were converted into operating theaters; a dance hall...
After about an hour, Mao suddenly brought up Taiwan, hinting obliquely at a solution. He had heard that the three Baltic states, Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, still had embassies in the U.S. I affirmed it. Chou helpfully chipped in that though maintaining diplomatic relations with the U.S., the Baltic states did not have access to the United Nations. Did this mean that China might acquiesce in a separate legal status for Taiwan, contenting itself with excluding Taiwan from...
...Gdansk, the Baltic seaport where Solidarity was born in August 1980, the spirit of resistance still burned. More than 200 students and workers were arrested there after clashes with police on Jan. 30. Foreign journalists visited the area last week on a government-organized tour and found many workers unshaken in their loyalty to Solidarity. "We have to have unions as before," said a hull-assembly worker at Lenin Shipyard. "In this country, with its [Communist] system, it is not possible to have a true union that is not political. If the government will not give it to us, then...
...Poland's ill-fated democratic experiment had a capital city, it was surely the Baltic port of Gdansk. Solidarity, the independent trade union, was born in the city's sprawling Lenin shipyard in August 1980. When the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski crushed that movement last Dec. 13, it died hardest in Gdansk. Three days after martial law was declared, protesters there engaged security forces in pitched battles that, according to the government, left at least nine civilians dead. Gdansk continues to resist. The government announced last week that new street clashes near the Lenin shipyard had ended...