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Many Polish workers are restive about official foot dragging on the Gdansk agreement; they have threatened to register their displeasure with a nationwide work stoppage similar to the one that shut factories for an hour on Oct. 3. Walesa and others had argued against such a step, at least for the moment. Said Walesa: "We are aware of the economic losses another strike would entail, but, since this is our weapon, we cannot give up using...
Cambridge seemed a Gdansk on the Charles this week, as labor unrest continued, but the city did manage to end one strike and narrowly avert another, at least for the time being...
...dissident group, was also denounced in a government news program that broadcast edited excerpts of a Swedish interview in which he appeared to favor the violent overthrow of the Communist regime. In Kuron's defense, Walesa warned that slandering KOR members could be a violation of the Gdansk agreement. It was a veiled but unmistakable threat of new strikes if Warsaw should persist in its crackdown on dissidents...
...cover the story was circumscribed, and English-speaking Polish intellectuals well informed on the situation. On American television, such unprecedented coverage may have seemed so much like home as not to appear novel: there stood an American correspondent, mike in hand, talking in front of the Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk exactly as he might outside a struck factory in Akron. Overnight, Strike Leader Lech Walesa-whose appearances on the state-run Polish television were kept to a minimum-became a familiar American-television face. With the usual American gift for hype, Republicans trotted out Walesa's father, who lives...
...allowed some freer discussion in the press and on television as well as radio broadcasts of church services, an encouraging turn that may prove temporary. "Don't go yet," a Polish airlines clerk said to the Times's John Vinocur as he bought a ticket to leave Gdansk. "It's good if somebody's watching...