Word: gated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Premier Mieczyslaw Jagielski, 56, whose graying hair and well-cut suit gave him the air of a distinguished Western banker. A tough and experienced negotiator, Jagielski was flanked by a task force that had flown with him from Warsaw three days earlier. Jagielski entered the shipyard through a side gate in order to avoid the antagonistic crowd at the main entrance. Workers stared at Jagielski's team in icy silence, then broke into hearty applause when their own negotiators passed...
...turning point was reached on Thursday, when Walesa suddenly made his dramatic appeal for a temporary halt to new strikes so that the negotiations could continue without an atmosphere of deepening crisis. After descending from atop the shipyard gate and conferring with the Jagielski team, he gave the government negotiators a signed statement declaring, "We are not for the widening of the strikes, which might push the country to the verge of collapse." The government, however, never published that message, presumably because it would have further enhanced Walesa's image and influence...
Discipline and organization inside the shipyard were remarkable. Workers with red-and-white armbands were stationed at the gate, screening all who entered. Small trucks that normally haul shipbuilding materials shuttled back and forth with food and drink. Beneath a sign, THANK YOU FOR GOOD WORK, thousands of workers lounged and read a strike newspaper called Solidarity...
Food was delivered by supporters outside, but alcohol was strictly banned. Once the guards found two bottles of vodka inside a food package. A man with a microphone at the gate held up the bottles and exclaimed: "We can't have this!" Then he ceremoniously poured the vodka onto the asphalt road...
...born speaker," Lech Walesa shouted to hundreds of people gathered outside the gates of the Lenin Shipyard. "I'm just a simple worker, so forgive me if I use simple language." Simple it may be, but it is the language the striking workers of Poland's Baltic coast understand and respond to. In the three weeks since the Gdansk strike began, Walesa (pronounced Vah-wen-sah) has become an authentic hero. Wherever he walked across the idle yard, workers would break into spontaneous applause. A few would run up for his autograph. Each evening when he climbed...