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Somewhat unexpectedly, Kuron and his group, the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), have lately been a moderating influence on the unions. Admits Pienkowska: "Some of us are radicals, but it often happens that after talking with Mr. Kuron we change our minds." Under other circumstances, the dissidents would be targeted for harassment or arrest by Kama's government, which needs to prove its toughness to Moscow. But the alliance between workers and dissidents, even if temporary, gives the dissidents a kind of protective coloration. "We won't allow for any crackdown, particularly on KOR," Walesa told TIME...
...limits on such "democracy," however, were clear from the intensifying official campaign against "antisocialist elements." The leader of one dissident fringe group was arrested last week after calling for an end to Communist rule in a West German TV interview. Jacek Kuron, head of the far more influential KOR dissident group, was also denounced in a government news program that broadcast edited excerpts of a Swedish interview in which he appeared to favor the violent overthrow of the Communist regime. In Kuron's defense, Walesa warned that slandering KOR members could be a violation of the Gdansk agreement...
...same time, the party also seemed intent on trying to divide the workers from their intellectual backers. The official press last week stepped up its campaign against "antisocialist elements" and specifically denounced KOR, the dissident group that has been advising the strikers. Explained KOR's leader, Sociologist Jacek Kuron: "They want to rid the [independent labor] movement of activists so that they can take over and do what they did with the official trade unions...
Later that evening, authorities fulfilled another promise made by Jagielski: the release of some 30 dissidents who had been jailed during the crisis. At a press conference shortly after his liberation, Jacek Kuron, spokesman for the Committee for Social Self-Defense (KOR), called the Gdansk agreement "a victory for the workers, but also for the government, which showed a sense of realism...
...dissidents' pronouncements and activities finally brought on a government crackdown. Two days after Gierek had publicly castigated them, 19 dissidents were arrested, including Kuron and some fellow KOR members who were staying in his Warsaw apartment. Next day, the authorities seized several other dissidents; among them was Leszek Moczulski, leader of the Confederation for an Independent Poland. Under Polish law the dissidents can be detained for 48 hours without formal charges. At week's end five were released, but others will probably be held longer. The regime seems bent on isolating the workers from the antigovernment intellectuals...