Word: jacek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Their moderation is based partly on the need to take stock of new realities in Poland. Said Jacek Kuron, a leader of the dissident intellectual group KOR: "To make any political evaluations [now] would be irresponsible. The only perspective I have had is that of prison." Moreover, the sometimes bloody experience of martial law has taught dissidents the futility of opposing head-on a regime backed by tanks and guns. "We have learned our lesson," said Seweryn Jaworski, once the vice chairman of Solidarity's Warsaw-based Mazowsze chapter. "We will no longer play into their hands. We know...
...official indictment charged the four men who went on trial in Warsaw last week with conspiring to overthrow the Communist system in Poland. That could mean only one thing: they had collaborated with the banned Solidarity movement. So when Intellectuals Jacek Kuron, Adam Michnik, Henryk Wujec and Zbigniew Romaszewski appeared before a military tribunal, former Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa broke off his summer vacation to travel to Warsaw. Although rows of police prevented Walesa from entering the military courthouse, his presence drew cheers and applause from the crowd that had gathered outside...
Maciej Kuron, the 20-year-old son of Poland's best-known dissident. Jacek Kuron, has been expelled from Warsaw University...
...father, Jacek Kuron, is still in custudy and is facing trial, together with three other dissidents, on charges of subversion...
According to a secret government poll, fully 85% of the public still back Solidarity. But the union's scattered leadership appears uncertain about how to mobilize this support. In an article smuggled out of prison, Union Adviser Jacek Kuron has called for a general strike to force the government to carry on genuine negotiations with Solidarity. But Zbigniew Bujak, the former chief of the union's Warsaw branch, feels that Solidarity should operate nonviolently as an underground society...