Word: jaruzelski
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...parliament 365 to 4. Only those arrested for treason, spying and sabotage will not be released. Among the freed will be seven leaders of the outlawed Solidarity trade-union movement who have been in jail since December 1981, when martial law was declared. The regime of Premier Wojciech Jaruzelski is now spared the embarrassment of continuing the two-week-old trial of four intellectuals accused of conspiring to overthrow the Communist system...
...Jaruzelski has another reason for this calculated charity: he hopes that it will persuade Washington to lift the U.S. trade sanctions imposed after martial law took effect. But he may be disappointed if he expects clemency to soften opposition inside Poland. Adam Michnik, 37, one of the quartet on trial, has announced that he does not want amnesty. If Michnik still desires his day in court, he will have to break the law after his release...
...case comes as an embarrassment to the government of General Wojciech Jaruzelski, who wants to improve relations with the U.S. Last spring the government offered to free the four men if they would refrain from all political activity and leave the Walesa country for a period. They refused. There has been widespread speculation that Jaruzelski will mark Poland's National Day on July 22 by offering an amnesty to all political prisoners from the Solidarity era, including the four men on trial. If convicted, the four could face up to ten years each in prison...
...horses five years ago. The two top stallions of his 94-horse stable are the U.S.S.R.'s Pesniar and Poland's El Paso, both plucked from behind the Iron Curtain with the Occidental Petroleum chairman's patented blend of bucks and brass. Poland's Wojciech Jaruzelski at first refused to sell El Paso, which he called "a national treasure," but a million dollars from Hammer helped change the Premier's mind. Hammer was in Florida last week for a show at a farm near Ocala that included 36 of his Arabians. The day before...
...boycott from leaders of Solidarity, the disbanded independent trade union. At a midnight press conference, jubilant government officials projected the total turnout at 75% of Poland's 26 million eligible voters. The regime had viewed the elections as a referendum on the leadership of Premier General Wojciech Jaruzelski, and he was quick to interpret the high turnout as proof that "the great majority of society" backed the government...