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...spilled out in three days of rioting the week before to protest the banning of the independent trade union Solidarity was spent. In its place they felt only grief. What brought more than 10,000 of them together in a moving show of defiance was the funeral of Bogdan Wlosik, 20, a trainee electrician at the steel mill who had been shot in a scuffle with a plainclothesman. He was the 15th Pole known to have been killed since the imposition of martial law last December, and if Solidarity activists had no desire to confront the forces ranged against them...
...said, "Let us not forget that 'every nation can lose, but only the most vile ones surrender.' " Though most union leaders, including Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa, are in government custody, a number of prominent Solidarity figures remain at large. Among them: Zbigniew Bujak, the Warsaw regional leader; Bogdan Lis, a former Walesa deputy; Zbigniew Janas, union leader at the Ursus factory. In an underground letter circulated last week, Janas called on workers to "prevent the destruction of Solidarity" and urged preparations for a nonviolent general strike...
...government deputation he brings with him are all stamped from the same mold, and to a man they exhibit the same well-paded faces. Across the table are the strikers, looking very different from the officials and from each other. Walesa, in his sports jacket and open collar; Bogdan Lis dressed casually, almost sloppily...
...fourth and fifth floors of the seedy Morski Hotel in Gdansk, where Solidarity has its headquarters, there is unanimity on goals but little agreement on tactics. Indeed, listening to the leaders talk strategy, it seems remarkable that Walesa has managed to check Solidarity's innate militancy. Says Bogdan Lis, 28, the only union leader who belongs to the Communist Party: "None of us has trust or belief in those people [the authorities]. We consider them opponents." Alina Pienkowska, 28, a meek-looking nurse who is actually a firebrand, says the authorities have to prove that "the renewal...
Tito's own physical stamina is doubtless the main reason for his survival, but another important factor has been the resourcefulness of his medical team, led by an old wartime comrade, Dr. Bogdan Brecelj, 74. The physicians have relied increasingly on medical machinery ever since his kidney failure and the onset of pneumonia. Dialysis treatment, to replace the kidneys' blood-cleansing function, has been used since late February. Tito is also receiving oxygen, and is reportedly hooked up to a respirator, which forces air in and out of his fluid-filled lungs, and an external pacemaker to regulate...