Word: gdansk
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...public order." At week's end police seized former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and several aides in Warsaw. The "charge": meeting secretly with other members of the banned labor union and attempting to draft a letter to the Polish parliament. Police promptly drove Walesa to his home in Gdansk, 220 miles away, where they increased the security around his apartment and prevented him from making phone calls...
...that has not prevented a series of prudent skirmishes. The Communist leadership hopes the trip will demonstrate to the world that life in Poland has returned to normal. As if to emphasize that fact, Walesa received permission to resume the job of electrician, which he once held in the Gdansk shipyard. Still, the government during the week arrested some 30 Solidarity supporters suspected of planning unofficial protest demonstrations for the May 1 workers' holiday. At his press conference, Walesa protested that the union members had no intention of fomenting disorder. "If no one beats us," he said, "there will...
...Primate Josef Cardinal Glemp told the hushed crowd, "This will be a decisive year for Poland, a year that will define the direction of her development." Glemp carefully avoided any reference to the May 1 protest. But later in the day, before another Mass in the port city of Gdansk, the Polish Cardinal spent about half an hour talking with Walesa. Both men favor negotiations between the government and Solidarity. In their view, the papal visit looms as a major opportunity to prepare the way for a new dialogue. The Catholic hierarchy thus opposes anything that could threaten that hope...
...report did not specify when Pinior was arrested. The announcement was made one day before Walesa was to return to his job as an electrician at the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk, where he helped lead the August 1980 strikes that created Solidarity...
...other members of the Solidarity commission, representing workers in major population centers, are Zbigniew Bujak of Warsaw, Bogdon Lis of Gdansk, Wladyslaw Hardck of Krakow and Eugeniusz Szurniejko of Katowice...