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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...
...prices in 1976, there were major riots in Radom and at the Ursus tractor factory. The brutal repression of these riots led to the formation of the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), a precursor of Solidarity. The organization was the first significant link between the dissident intellectuals like Jacek Kuron and the workers who later founded Solidarity. Inspired by KOR activists, small independent?and illegal?labor unions cautiously began to form in various parts of the country. Lech Walesa joined such a unit and was arrested and briefly jailed scores of times...
...Poles fear that the Reagan administration will play the "Polish card," Jacek Kabalinski, president of the 5000-member Warsaw Journalists Association, added in an interview given after he spoke at an off-the-record seminar at the Center for International Affairs (CFIA...
When fully operational, the plant is expected to generate enough electrical power to meet the needs of 17,000 homes, giving the investors a return of 15% on their money, a profit that few utilities can match. Says Essex Chairman Jacek Makowski: "A hydro project can be viewed as an oil well with unlimited resources. Once you have the capital investment finished, you are good for 50 years, maybe longer...
...would anyone reawaken the anti-Semitism issue in a country where there are now so few Jews to attack? In fact there was an overwhelming suspicion that the rally organizers had another target in mind. Coming only days after the temporary detention of Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron and other incidents of harassment against Solidarity, the rally seemed to many to be an attempt to discredit the independent trade union with an emotional "Zionist" label...