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...crowbars and metal cable to use as weapons. Speaking at the graduation exercises of an officers' training school in Poznan, Jaruzelski warned that "excesses and irresponsible demonstrations" would "not be tolerated." Just before the scheduled demonstrations, the management of several major Warsaw factories played tapes of one of Lech Walesa's moderate speeches, followed by a commentary on how extremists had taken over the union. On the afternoon of the Solidarity anniversary, the state television even scheduled a replay of the now legendary soccer match in July when Poland eliminated the Soviet Union from the World Cup competition...
...addition to demanding the release of Lech Walesa, the leader of the suspended Solidarity labor union, Poland's Primate outlined three conditions for "national reconciliation": the revival of free trade-union activity, the release of some 600 Poles who remain in detention camps and amnesty for the estimated 2,000 people convicted of violations of martial law and a firm date for a visit by Pope John Paul II to his native land...
Workers at the Lenin shipyard, in the Baltic seaport of Gdansk, laid down their tools on Aug. 14 and refused to leave. As news of the strike spread, an unemployed electrician named Lech Walesa climbed over the shipyard's iron-bar fence and into history. Under his leadership, the workers demanded higher wages, an earlier retirement age, better food supplies and, in a daring political challenge to the regime, the right to organize independent trade unions...
...Gathered at the base of a ten-foot-high monument to the Home Army, the non-Communist resistance group that organized the 1944 revolt, about 1,000 supporters of the suspended Solidarity union sang hymns, raised their hands in V-for-victory signs and called for the liberation of Lech Walesa, the union leader who remains under detention in southeast Poland...
...Jaruzelski's measures fell far short of satisfying most Poles. He did not mention Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, who is being held in a hunting lodge in southeastern Poland. Although Jaruzelski said the governing military council hoped to end martial law "before the end of the year," he added that the Sejm would first have to grant the Council of Ministers unspecified "special powers." It did not take long for Poles to see for themselves that little had changed. Before dawn on National Day, security forces destroyed a cross of evergreens and flowers that had been placed in Warsaw...