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...imposition of martial law last December, and if Solidarity activists had no desire to confront the forces ranged against them in downtown Nowa Huta last week, they did use his burial rites to send a clear message to the military regime of General Wojciech Jaruzelski. Referring to imprisoned Leader Lech Walesa's refusal to cooperate with the government, a crudely printed sign outside the steel mill challenged workers with the reminder WALESA ENDURED...
Under attack in the streets and besieged in the shipyard, the strikers had no leader of the caliber of the imprisoned Lech Walesa to organize an effective challenge to Warsaw's might. Working through clandestine committees, union activists drafted a list of demands for the government, calling for the release of Walesa and other internees, an end to martial law, and the revival of Solidarity. Without a formal strike committee to coordinate activities, the initiative faltered...
...prestigious and often controversial Nobel Peace Prize has been bestowed on personalities as famous and colorful as Teddy Roosevelt, Henry Kissinger, Anwar Sadat and Menachem Begin. The award has also been given to faceless organizations. In 1981, the five-person Norwegian Nobel Committee passed over Polish Trade Union Leader Lech Walesa to bestow its gold medallion and $180,000 in cash on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees...
...parliament outlawed not only Solidarity but all other existing labor organizations as well, clearing the way for a new set of factory-based unions that the government clearly intends to control. With Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa and some 600 other key members still in custody, Jaruzelski was gambling that a dispirited population would accept the union's long-predicted demise without major upheavals. Warsaw's bosses were also hoping that Western opposition would be largely rhetorical...
...Warsaw, about 1,000 demonstrators gathered on Constitution Square and began marching toward the monolithic, Stalin-era Palace of Culture and Science in an effort to link up with another group. Police moving in to break up the crowds were greeted with shouts of "Gestapo!" "Solidarity!" and "We want Lech!"-a reference to Lech Walesa, the detained leader of Solidarity...