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Five years ago, Stanislaw Baranczak, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and 13 other Polish scholars banded together to form what would become Poland's best-known dissident organization, the Workers' Self-Defense Committee (KOR...
Since then, KOR has supported various Polish labor movements and has offered legal protection for persecuted workers...
During the last year, however, as Poland's independent labor union, Solidarity, came to the forefront as that country's strongest labor force, KOR's role in the movement was greatly diminished, and the committee assumed a mainly advisory, background position...
...came as little surprise when 93-year-old Edward Lipinski, one of KOR's founders, announced at Solidarity's national congress meeting Monday that the committee had officially decided to disband...
Baranczak said yesterday that KOR-members had felt for several months that the group should be dissolved and added that "all the goals we had are now being fulfilled by Solidarity...