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Poles registered their personal protests in many ways last week during the first elections held since martial law was declared in December 1981. Even so, most of the country appears to have participated in the voting for 7,040 regional and 103,388 local councils, despite calls for a boycott from leaders of Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. At a midnight press conference, jubilant government officials projected the total turnout at 75% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters. The regime had viewed the elections as a referendum on the leadership of Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski...
Labelling the 1980 U.S. boycott of the Games as "no cause for celebration," he says the U.S. rowing team this year is "alot stranger...
...sort of pity" that the Soviet Union and several of her allies will boycott the Games, he says, noting that the Russians and the East Germans have fielded the world's strongest crew teams in recent years...
This meant that voters who dissented from the approved candidates could easily be identified. Few Poles were predicting that the boycott would be successful, but almost no one expected the government to get the 99% turnout common in East bloc elections...
...escape detection simply by stopping use of steroids immediately before the Los Angeles Games: their presence in the body can be detected as much as six months after the drugs have been taken. Indeed, some doctors suspect that fear of detection may have contributed to the Soviet decision to boycott the Los Angeles Games...