Word: baltics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moves. Solidarity brazenly announced the establishment of a special commission to defend jailed dissidents-just the sort of political gesture that the Kremlin has warned against. Meanwhile, farmers clamored for a union of their own. A huge ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the bloody 1970 riots on the Baltic coast was planned for this week, and officials worried lest it get out of hand. If it did, Soviet troops stood on alert at Poland's borders. "The Poles," said a concerned analyst in Bonn, "seem to have a particular talent for courting national suicide." But the workers were...
...power struggle between Poland's newly independent labor movement and the Warsaw regime of Party Boss Stanislaw Kania has become an international suspense serial, one showdown giving way to the next, each resolved in the nick of time. From a shipyard in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, the drama has radiated across Poland and the East bloc. Now it is affecting Western Europe and the U.S. as well...
...Madrid to hold press conferences detailing repression at home. Outside the Palace of Congresses, Maris Kirsons, a 39-year-old Latvian-born Lutheran minister from Philadelphia, punctured a vein in his arm and dripped blood on a Soviet flag in a protest against Moscow's dominance of the Baltic states...
...will fall victim to what Frenchmen now call the Teddy Kennedy phenomenon: a sharp decline in popularity once the candidate comes out in the open. Rocard does have a vulnerable side: a tendency to shoot from the hip. Last summer he seriously suggested sending the French navy into the Baltic to rescue Poles in the event of a Soviet invasion. Such pronouncements might seem to make him an easy campaign target. Nonetheless, Giscard would rather run against Mitterrand-if only to defeat, once and for all, those Socialist Party leftists who still long for an alliance with the Communists...
Dressed in his familiar baggy gray suit, Lech Walesa proudly led his delegation into Room 203 of the Warsaw district provincial court. As hundreds of sympathizers jostled one another outside, the Baltic labor leader slid an eight-page document across the long table. It was the charter of Solidarnosc (Solidarity), the new Gdansk-based umbrella organization representing 36 independent unions from all over Poland. Judge Zdzislaw Koscielniok declared he would examine the charter for two weeks and then rule on its legitimacy. As Walesa departed from the drab sandstone building, cheering workers hoisted him on their shoulders and carried...