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...makeshift sign hanging over the entrance to the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, but the message in black letters was plain and specific: SOLIDARITY LIVES. Three days before, Poland's parliament had passed a law formally abolishing the independent trade union, yet, as the simple banner at the union's Baltic birthplace made eloquently clear, Solidarity supporters were not yet ready to bury all the aspirations and hope that had been inspired by the reform movement, however powerful the suasions and muscle of Poland's military regime. In Gdansk and other cities across the country last week...
...Poland's rulers are fooling themselves if they believe Solidarity will quietly disappear. On Sunday and Monday, thousands of men and women stopped working in the Gdansk shipyards to protest the ban. Fugitive leaders of Solidarity called Monday for a four-hour nationwide strike on November 10. Outlawed or not, the union can still be a painful thorn in Jaruzelski's side...
...from the Pope, who threatened to "lay down the crown of St. Peter" and return home to join the resistance if the Soviets moved against Poland. After a series of diplomatic shuttles between Moscow, Warsaw and Rome, says NBC, the papal envoy persuaded the Soviets to acquiesce in the Gdansk agreement that gave birth to Solidarity. Exasperated by the Pope's intervention and by his subsequent "plans to send millions of dollars to Solidarity," says Kalb, Brezhnev may have decided to get rid of "this meddlesome priest...
...flared for the next eight hours. Some of the demonstrators, who built barricades of benches and trash bins, attacked the ZOMOs with rocks, slingshots and Molotov cocktails that turned at least two police vans into smoldering hulks. By the time the struggle quieted down around midnight, the streets of Gdansk were littered with broken glass, paving stones and empty tear-gas canisters...
...people turned out in the face of a formidable array of police and army units. According to one report, the authorities had sent some 15,000 extra police troops to Wroclaw in anticipation of major trouble. The main battle started in front of the city opera house. As in Gdansk, demonstrators erected barricades and hurled Molotov cocktails at police vans, setting at least one on fire. Some residents even dropped flowerpots and bottles from their windows on passing ZOMO troops...