Word: bratkowski
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...oppositionists, including leaders of the Solidarity underground -- between July and September. Hard-line opponents of the regime warned that the amnesty was merely an interlude before the next round of jailings, but others thought that a new era of peaceful coexistence might be beginning. Said Opposition Journalist Stefan Bratkowski: "In comparison to what has been happening until now, this is a major political shift...
...open letter that circulated in Warsaw last week, ex-Communist Party Member Stefan Bratkowski, the former head of the Association of Polish Journalists, called for a "ceasefire" in the "civil war" launched by "the authorities against their own population...
...symbol for all liberals in 1 the party. He was the symbol of hope that it could change." The subject of that description by a Polish journalist was Stefan Bratkowski, 47, one of the Polish Communist Party's leading advocates of cooperation with the independent Solidarity union and the Roman Catholic Church. Bratkowski's liberalism cost him his party membership last week...
...Bratkowski's idea, ironically, did not appear very different from one advanced by the government only a few days earlier...
...choices were more sharply drawn than ever. Poland last week stood poised between what Warsaw Journalist Stefan Bratkowski called "a revolution of good sense," and a perilous showdown with its Soviet master. Everyone in Poland, after months of denying the obvious, finally acknowledged that Soviet intervention was a real possibility. Indeed, both the government and Solidarity, the federation of Poland's new independent unions, issued calls for moderation. But at the same time, the workers continued to test Moscow's patience with provocative moves. Solidarity brazenly announced the establishment of a special commission to defend jailed dissidents-just...