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...appeared to be a rippling campaign against Solidarity members and their supporters all across the country. A two-page report by Solidarity's national commission listed numerous cases of police harassment, ranging from unannounced searches of union offices to the temporary detention on March 5 of Dissident Leader Jacek Kuron, a regular adviser to Solidarity. Walesa raised this issue too during his meeting with Jaruzelski, who promised that a joint union-government commission would investi gate the charges...
...they were 13 years ago. Yet for all its emotional underpinnings, the demonstration was also marked by internal discipline and control. Every one seemed to sense the limits and dangers of Poland's bold experiment. "A social movement must realize what can be achieved under certain circumstances," Jacek Kuron told the students. Evoking memories of Poland's 1956 riots, which very nearly prompted a Soviet invasion, the dissident leader warned, "We face the same tanks and we are aware that they can local roll in. " -By Thomas A. Sancton. Reported by Richard Hornik/West Berlin
Warsaw's leaders got the message. Less than 24 hours after Kania's Moscow meeting, the first signs of a new crackdown began to emerge. Shortly before 6 a.m. on Thursday, police arrested Jacek Kuron, 46, a leader of the KOR dissident group and a regular adviser to Solidarity, the independent union federation. Officials at the state prosecutor's office released Kuron seven hours later, after informing him that he was under investigation for slandering the state. He was also told to report to his local police station every Tuesday and Thursday-the days he is usually...
...views of KOR were "not favorable to the stabilization of the country."He apparently hoped to exploit the growing uneasiness between the union and the dissidents. KOR has been on the defensive since earlier this month, when a spokesman for the Roman Catholic Church charged that its leading activist, Jacek Kuron, had made "noisy and irresponsible statements" against Moscow. Stung by the church attack, KOR replied that it was "contrary to the stand of the whole history of the Catholic Church for the past 35 years...
...deflect these inflammatory questions, but his answer must have troubled the Kremlin even so: "We do have to have a settling of accounts. Right now we have to work on odnowa." Some Solidarity theoreticians, while conceding the party its "leading role," tend to define that role narrowly. Says Jacek Kuron, a dissident intellectual and senior adviser to the union: "It means the monopoly of power over the police forces, the army and foreign policy. All other matters must be open to negotiation with society...