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...extraordinary gathering was dominated by new faces, new ideas and new expectations. The members came from all over Poland: brawny shipyard workers from Gdansk, deeply tanned farmers from Poznan, professors from Cracow. Their average age was only 40. They had been chosen by secret ballots in elections at their local party units; 91% had never before taken part in such a referendum. But when the 1,955 delegates converged last week on Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, a towering marble-and-granite edifice given to the Polish people by Joseph Stalin in the 1950s, they seemed determined...
Once more the strike sirens were wailing across Poland. First, 35,000 dockers at Baltic seaports from Gdansk to Szczecin walked off their jobs for an hour. The men were demanding improved working conditions and benefits. Next day, most of the 6,000 employees of LOT, the national airline, quit working for four hours. Reason: they claimed the right to name the airline's new director. (At week's end the LOT employees accepted the government's appointee as "president" but insisted that their candidate actually run the airline.) Finally, transport workers in the northwestern city...
Strikes. Economic debacle. Invasion jitters. It might seem at a quick glance that nothing much had changed in Poland since those turbulent days last summer, when an obscure electrician named Lech Walesa clambered over the gates of Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk to take control of a burgeoning national strike. In reality almost everything is different. The 1980 strikes shook the Communist world to its roots, engendering the Soviet bloc's first independent trade union, Solidarity, and launching a far-reaching process of reform and re-examination called odnowa (renewal...
...shelves emptier - than they were a year ago. Unless the workers scale back their demands, there seems to be little chance for national recovery. "If this continues, those who applauded us in August 1980 will be throwing stones at us," Walesa admonished at a Solidarity meeting in Gdansk last week. That would be a rude awakening indeed from the dream of odnowa...
...message of Images is not hateful, but hopeful. Despite the pall that hangs over this film of Hitler's indescribable odiousness. Image is a declaration of faith in man and in freedom. Danzig is now called Gdansk, and we don't know what June will bring. But where there is fear, there is hope, and it's too easy these days to dismiss callously the strength of diversity...