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...most copying equipment has been confiscated. One appeal from an unnamed member of Solidarity's national commission urged on the resistance and said, "Let us not forget that 'every nation can lose, but only the most vile ones surrender.' " Though most union leaders, including Solidarity Chairman Lech Walesa, are in government custody, a number of prominent Solidarity figures remain at large. Among them: Zbigniew Bujak, the Warsaw regional leader; Bogdan Lis, a former Walesa deputy; Zbigniew Janas, union leader at the Ursus factory. In an underground letter circulated last week, Janas called on workers to "prevent...
...Lech Walesa, meanwhile, was reportedly refusing to negotiate with authorities except in the presence of Glemp, Solidarity's three legal advisers and the entire union presidium. Walesa's wife is said to have visited him several times and to have confirmed that he is in good health and relaxed enough to joke with his guards about trying to escape. But he eats only the food that visitors bring him, fearing that he might be drugged by his captors. Denying widespread reports that Walesa had been sent to a monastery, Wieslaw Gornicki, a Jaruzelski adviser, last week stated that...
...vowed Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa 16 months ago, when asked about the danger of Soviet intervention. He was right, even though the last important strike or sit-in against Poland's three-week-old martial law regime ended at the Piast mine in Silesia last week when 1,100 weary and hungry workers decided to give up their demonstration after occupying their mineshaft for 14 days. But across Poland, a wave of passive resistance was beginning to swell. In Szczecin, dockworkers were reported to be loading and unloading the same goods over and over again; at the Zeran auto...
...Miroslav Chojecki, an associate of arrested Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, added that he could foresee anoptimistic end to the present crisis in Poland, only if the Soviet Union decides that "Poland is necessary to them as a well-functioning social and economic system...
Hence the extraordinary challenge that Lech Walesa and Solidarity-the real Polish united workers' party-have represented not only to the Communist regime of their own country but to its prototype and master that watches, waits, worries and issues warnings from across the border in the Soviet Union. The Kremlin may still dismiss the Poles as indolent dreamers, but the whole world knows better. Even if their stubborn defiance ends tragically, the Poles have proved themselves tough, determined and courageous enough not to work for a system that does not work for them-and to work for something better...