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Glemp pins his hopes on a peaceful dialogue between the regime and the outlawed union. Polish authorities have indicated that they are ready to begin serious talks soon. But the key figure in any such negotiations, Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa, has been held virtually incommunicado since martial law was declared on Dec. 13. Walesa, who has reportedly been held at four locations near Warsaw, has managed to smuggle out several messages, although their authenticity cannot be confirmed. The Warsaw branch of Solidarity's underground last week published what it said was a letter that Walesa had scrawled...
...Change, too, has its limits," charged Bundestag Member Freimut Duve, a member of West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt's Social Democratic Party. "Lech Walesa should have recognized them long ago." Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau stated that martial law "isn't bad" if it prevents civil war. George Kennan, a former U.S. Ambassador to Moscow, suggested that Poland's latest tragedy might have been avoided if only Solidarity had been content "to rest for a while on its laurels" instead of pushing the "semiparalyzed Communist government" to the wall...
...Lech Walesa is a poor choice for your Man of the Year. He is not an antiCommunist. He is only protesting against mismanagement and mistreatment by overlords-but not because they are Communist overlords...
Your choice of Lech Walesa for Man of the Year is good, but not best. Anwar Sadat taught the world what Christ meant by forgive and forget. He overlooked historical grudges for the cause of peace...
Jaruzelski had originally hoped to rally worker support by winning the cooperation of moderate union leaders, especially Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa. But Walesa, who is presumably still being held in a government villa near the capital, continued his refusal to negotiate. Although Spokesman Urban said that Walesa "is such a personality that a place will be found for him in future agreements," some Western analysts believe that the authorities have virtually given up hope that he will cooperate...